An Investigation Into Overcoming Obstacles: A Female Sports Moderator In A Male-Dominated Field

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XU MINJIA,Manual Selvaraj Bexci,Amrita Ghosh

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Despite the growing number of women's sports, the media continues to provide much less coverage of these events. The already marginalised status of women's sports is exacerbated by the pitiful number of journalists who both cover and debate these events. By interviewing female sports journalists in detail, this study hopes to fill a knowledge vacuum by exploring their professional identities and thoughts on the current state of women's sports coverage in the media. Women athletes made up the bulk of the participants, who were hoping that more positive coverage of women athletes' sports activities would result from changes in the demographics of newsrooms and improvements in digital news technologies. The topic of gender prejudice in the workplace has been a hot topic for quite some time. The National Partnership for Women and Families reports that, for every dollar that men make, women earn 80%. This number accurately portrays the gender pay gap that exists in all industries, but it fails to take into account the many other types of discrimination that women face. The utter absence of female athletes is especially shocking given the long history of female dominance in sports. Although women's lack of enthusiasm for the profession is a contributing factor, it is far from the sole one.

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