@ARTICLE{Stempień_Jakub_Ryszard_The_2014, author={Stempień, Jakub Ryszard}, number={No 1}, journal={Kultura i Społeczeństwo}, pages={169-186}, howpublished={online}, year={2014}, publisher={Komitet Socjologii PAN}, publisher={Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN}, abstract={This article is about selected issues in women’s sports, and above all the modest participation of women in so-called leisure sports. Statistical data concerning Poland and other countries (particularlyWestern Europe) is presented. The fashion for jogging, which is currently being seen in Poland as well, is analyzed. The author’s own research, done in 2013 and involving 865 participants in the Łódź ‘I Care About My Health’ Marathon, documents the smallness of women’s interest in participating in marathon struggles.On the basis of the information collected in the study’s survey questionnaires, it was possible for the author to create a socio-demographic portrait of the female Polish long-distance runner. It was also possible to note the sociologically interesting and elucidating difference between men and women in the sphere of training and in their running careers/biographies.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={The Gender of the Marathon: Leisure Sports in Women’s Experience}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/86877/PDF/Journal10276-Volume58_Issue1-10_paper.pdf}, doi={10.2478/kultura-2014-0020}, keywords={leisure sports, masculine and feminine sports, the fashion for jogging}, }