One step forward,two steps back: Women in newspaper sports journalism,1988-2018

Abstract

This is a study of the participation in women sportswriters at nine major metropolitan daily newspapers between 1988 and 2018. I have drawn samples from the sports front pages, drawing a sample of two randomly constructed weeks during the years 1988, 1993, 1998, 2013 and 2018. The study analyzes 3,700 articles during that period.

Keywords

gender content/coverage minorities/diversity women sports

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