Significance of women's rowing crew (6)
I believe the answer is:
weight
'significance' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'women's rowing crew' is the wordplay.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'rowing crew' becomes 'eight' (I've seen this before).
'w'+'eight'='WEIGHT'
'of' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for weight that I've seen before include "Trouble" , "Gravitational pull" , "Heavy load - preponderance" , "Import" , "Significance" .)