Women’s Sports What Everyone Needs to Know® by Jaime Schultz

Author:Jaime Schultz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

What types of challenges do women sport journalists face?

Studies show that women sport journalists have to deal with specific types of prejudice that their male colleagues do not. One survey determined that 85 percent of women in sport media reported that sex discrimination is a problem in the profession, 87 percent believed they had a tougher job than male journalists, and 60 percent believed that sport fans and media consumers did not take women journalists as seriously as men journalists.41 It is rare for television networks to hire women as play-by-play or color analysts in big-time sport. More likely, producers assign women to sideline reporting, short feature segments, or to cover non-revenue sports. Research finds that women have to work harder for promotions that rarely materialize and are typically paid less than their male counterparts.

Women must also repeatedly prove their credibility because of the assumption that they lack the necessary sports knowledge for the job. In 2002, 60 Minutes correspondent Andy Rooney remarked, in an interview with Larry King,

The only thing that really bugs me about television’s coverage [of football] is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who do not know what the hell they are talking about. I mean, I am not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.

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