If Sekules and Picket are any example, women boxers still have much to prove.

With ten women boxers participating, Turkey garnered one gold medal only.

Unlike some professional women boxers, who may be known more for their appearance than their sports ability, Mueller is an athlete first.

She forms part of a group of young women boxers to come from that country.

Women's boxing may well be a freak show, but women boxers are no freaks.

Telling women boxers they have to wear skirts.

Wearing shorts is not a good way for women boxers to dress.

The organisers of the event expect to welcome between 300 and 400 women boxers, competing in 10 different weight classes.

Ruling body to decide whether to recommend that women boxers are allowed to wear shorts at London 2012.

An online petition against forcing women boxers to wear skirts currently has more than 50,000 signatures.