Sports Reporting and Gender: Women Journalists who Broke the Locker Room Barrier
Date
2010-03
Authors
Everbach, Tracy
Matysiak, Laura
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Publisher
Texas State University, Center for Diversity and Gender Studies
Abstract
This qualitative study examined female sportswriters' influences on sports journalism. Interviews with 12 women who broke the locker room barrier in the 1970s and 1980s showed that the journalists fought hard to gain access to athletes' inner sanctum. Once they gained access, they endured harassment and embarrassment, but ultimately landed compelling stories from their subjects. The women broke many barriers for women sportswriters today. However, with a shrinking journalism industry and continuing discrimination, their efforts are unlikely to produce job equity in the near future for women journalists or for media coverage of women's sports.
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Keywords
gender, sports reporting, journalists, locker rooms, women
Citation
Everbach, T., & Matysiak, L. (2010). Sports reporting and gender: Women journalists who broke the locker room barrier. <i>Journal of Research on Women and Gender, 1</i>(1), pp. 1-21.