Media Coverage Of Women's Sports

In this essay, the author

• Opines that there has been little progress made toward gender equality for women's sports in the 21 century.
• Opines that even though progress was made in the appreciation of women's sport, the media coverage is still treating women sports as if we were still in 19th and 20th century not televising the big moment in female athletic
• Analyzes how women's sport is still ignored even with the rise in ticket sales. the lady bears are 24-2 overall, 13-1 in big 12 play, and sit one game behind texas for the conference lead.

• Opines that there has been little progress made toward gender equality for women's sports in the 21 century.
• Opines that even though progress was made in the appreciation of women's sport, the media coverage is still treating women sports as if we were still in 19th and 20th century not televising the big moment in female athletic
• Analyzes how women's sport is still ignored even with the rise in ticket sales. the lady bears are 24-2 overall, 13-1 in big 12 play, and sit one game behind texas for the conference lead.
• Explains that the lady bears drew a larger crowd in their home opener against houston baptist university than the men did against oral roberts university.
• Explains that the lady bears have played 10 games this season against ranked opponents. only two of them, at tennessee and a home game against oklahoma, have been broadcast on the espn family of networks.
• Opines that female athletes in the 21st century never were as popular as men sports, but they have gained some of the respect and recognition for their performances in their sport.
• Opines that the media coverage for female athletes doesn't promote anything close to and action shots where the female athlete is fully dressed and focus on coming out victorious in their sport.
• Analyzes how sports illustrated portrays female athletes completely nude holding equipment pertaining to the sport of the athlete or partially naked wearing bathing suits in sexual provoking poses that portray that sex is more important than portraying the athletic woman image on the cover of magazines
• Analyzes how the information about the female athlete's personal life has nothing to do with her career milestones, upcoming game, season stats.
• Explains that even if one wanted to participate in a sport, it would have to be very lightly active movement because of the assumption that females couldn't endure regress activities without fainting due to their poor fitness level, which ultimately caused people to think less of female athletics overall and that
• Opines that women's sports are a waste of time because they aren't supposed to be playing sports because of the original stereotypes that woman are too feminine and easy going to actually be dominating figures in their sport.
• Opines that the lack of coverage of women's sport is due to not enough people like the game to push for more broadcast games.
• Opines that the low coverage numbers are due to a number of ratings and the amount of revenue women sports bring to the television station broadcasting.
• Explains that stereotypes are constructed because of what is portrayed by the media. women athletes have to decide if they should conform to the stereotype and become whatever society has set for women or become their own individual.
• Explains that women's sports get about 4% of media coverage on television, which isn't a lot because of that split between all levels of sport in female athletics.
• Argues that women sports have to split a television station with other television shows or games will even be partially aired to allow the channel to cover other games.
• Opines that women's sport jumped in popularity in the 21st century and the number of female participants is over 500%. sports media coverage is still at an all-time low.
• Analyzes how the female media coverage took a fall after the 2012 olympics after having an historic olympic season for both men and women. only 4.5% of the stories were dedicated to women's sport.