Gender and sport
‘I still get tweets to go back in the kitchen’ – the enduring power of sexism in sports media
Although the US women’s national soccer team has long been the envy of the world, they face being upstaged by regional men’s soccer teams. Female athletes and journalists continue to face serious barriers as local news outlets spend only 3% of their airtime covering women’s sports and more than 90% of anchors, commentators and editors are men.
