Surveys the participation of women in sports from classical times to the present day.Female tennis players hit volleys. Slow-motion shots of women hitting tennis balls. A man in a suit gives a female tennis player flowers and shakes her hand. Aerial shot of a packed stadium. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, a javelin thrower runs and throws the javelin. She poses for the camera with the javelin. Zaharias, also a golfer, gripping a club. Medium shots of her swinging, then putting. A ballerina on ice skates twirls in circles for a circus on ice. Women walking along the edge of a pool step onto platform, lift their shawls, and twirl. A large grop of women dressed in white run an obstacle course. Women wearing bandannas and safety goggles on an assembly line. A woman bowls, and knocks down all the pins except one. Female basketball players. Female roller derby players, many running into each other and crashing.