Stereotypes In Sports

Women being discriminated against from being hired into newsrooms has been an ethical issue since the inception of the press, with men taking high-ranking spots in press and station positions until the mid-20th century. In this paper, I will look to analyze how these hiring practices from media companies have negatively affected women in sports media, and how the application of these practices is unethical as it maximizes harm to those potentially wanting to get into the field, along with blurring the lines of accountability and transparency within reporting. It is also often seen that if women do get hired to these jobs they are often met with discrimination of some sort, whether that be through overlooking of skill due to gender, sexual harassment, …show more content…
Another key component from Cowell’s article touches up on the 1978 lawsuit between the MLB and Sports Illustrated in which Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was able to win rights for female reporters to enter the same facilities along with their male counterparts, with the ideology at the time being that women writers were looking to get into locker rooms just to get a look at naked players. Stories like this are not uncommon even in the 21st century, with Nadula Magazine taking a look at the history of women in sports media as of 2022. In the magazine, Nadula discusses a study done by Sports Illustrated in 1991 from the article, it was found that less than fifty women were working as sports journalists in the United States. With such troubling numbers like these in the early days of sports journalism, it’s only telling why the numbers have been marginalized to what they are now. Even some pioneer women reporters such as Linda Guerrero cite their experiences as a reporter and the pressure they faced while working for a major network at the time, ABC. In her sit-down interview with Michel Martin of NPR, Guerrero recites an incident 20 years ago in which she misspoke on TV and was promptly fired for her mistake, with the network citing her gaining mistrust amongst viewers after the incident. (Martin, 2023) Although some women have been given some leeway in the sport such as Charissa Thompson of the

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