Women In Sport & Their Portrayal by Media Outlets

Part 2

Women struggle to receive respectful quality coverage of their sport in mainstream news media

When woman’s sports are covered, they trivialise the athleticism of the women

Stereotyped as being views as masculine when playing in team sports WNBA marketed athletes femineity

It’s Not About The Game: Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender and

Sexuality in Contemporary Media

‘Patriots at Play’: Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the Gold Medal Contenders in Men’s and Women’s Ice

Hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

The Globe and Mail & The New York Times

319 articles and photographs Articles: 69% male, 12% female Photographs: 66% male, 33% female

Front page: 90% male, 10% female

The Study

Gender schema theory Trivialisation of women’s sports

Underrepresentation of women’s sports

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/more-sport/erin-densham-beats-heart-problems-and-is-now-the-no1-ranked-female-triathlete/story-fnducgor-1226615854574

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/more-sport/julie-corletto-enjoying-leadership-role-with-northern-mystic/story-fnducgor-1226614229543

Cooky, C., Wachs, F. L., Messner, M., & Dworkin, S. L. (2010). It’s Not About the Game: Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Media. Sociology of sport journal 27(21), 139-159

The Daily Telegraph (2013) Sport: Sport News Online. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport

Lulham, A. (2013). Erin Desham beats heart problems and is now the No.1 ranked female triathlete. The Daily Telegraph retrieved from: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/more-sport/erin-densham-beats-heart-problems-and-is-now-the-no1-ranked-female-triathlete/story-fnducgor-1226615854574

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