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The Interest is There — It’s Past Time to Start Giving Women’s Sports Equal Media Coverage
Men’s sports have traditionally dominated mainstream sports media coverage. In 2015, a study entitled “It’s Dude Time” found that L.A.-based network affiliate sports news programs devoted only 3.2% of broadcast time to women’s sports. In the years since, women have slowly been gaining ground, and several promising studies have recently emerged to paint a picture…
Read MoreThe ABCs of WSF
We have been working for 44 years, since our inception in San Francisco in 1974, when the landscape in girls’ and women’s sports looked entirely different than it does today. In that time, we have galvanized valuable and historic advances for girls and women in sports, and with that comes a broad web of programs…
Read More25 Year Study Shows Coverage of Women’s Sports on Televised News and Highlights Shows Remains Very Low
The last 40 years have seen a dramatic movement of girls and women into sports, but, according to a new study, this social change is not reflected televised sports news and highlights shows.
Read MoreWomen’s Sports Foundation and USA Today High School Sports to Celebrate Girls Sports Month
The Women’s Sports Foundation today kicked off its collaboration with USA Today High School Sports to celebrate March’s Girls Sports Month. Throughout the month, we will share the stories of renowned and inspiring female athletes, as they discuss their views on topics such as leadership, mentoring, perseverance and the important role athletics has played in…
Read More“Boys Will be Boys,” an Excuse No Longer? Part 2
For Part 1 of “Boys Will Be Boys,” an Excuse No Longer, click here. This is Part 2. An incident that did not receive as much response as it should have came in late 2011 when a Xavier-Cincinnati basketball game ended with an ugly bench-clearing brawl, leaving one young man lying on the floor with…
Read MoreWSF responds to Fox anchor’s offensive Danica Patrick comment
Last week Fox sports announcer, Ross Shimabuku, stopped just short of referring to NASCAR driver Danica Patrick as a b—- during an on-air broadcast. Shimabuku, who joined the station in May 2009, showed a video clip of Patrick at NASCAR Media Day, where she complained the media always describe female athletes such as herself as…
Read MoreNPR: Sports Don’t Need Sex to Sell
In a blog today from NPR’s The Nation, Mary Jo Kane, the director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, opines about the American media’s tendency to sexualize female athletes.
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