For Further research

download (4)One good page to visit about gender equality in sports is http://www.playthegame.org/news/news-articles/2013/the-london-2012-olympics-a-gender-equality-audit/ which focuses on showing how the olympic games in London in 2012 had effect on the gender bias in media. Its interesting to see the raw data of how there is even massive difference in funding the female sports and how in effect the media was representing it.

Next good page to visit is http://bleacherreport.com/articles/440556-twelve-women-who-pioneered-the-era-of-female-sports-broadcasters which shows the 12 most important women that helped push the gender equality in the sports broadcasting. Its interesting to read more about these women that were pushing for gender equality in the sports media in the early 80s.

And for anyone interested in more scandals about male broadcasters making sexist comments you can visit http://www.theawayend.net/component/content/article/50-archive/570-the-impact-of-keys-and-grays-sexism-scandal and read about the Andy Gray and Richard Keys firing as football commentators after 25 years of work after a tape with them making sexist comments towards female co-anchor and for making sexist comments towards the female sideline referee. It’s good to see that at least some networks have strict policy when it goes with making sexist comments at the workplace.

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