Women sportswriters were critical to the growth of cricket in the 1930s. How have we gone backwards?
- Written by Nick Richardson, Adjunct Professor of Journalism, La Trobe University
Wikimedia CommonsMen write nearly nine in ten sports articles that appear in Australian media, a report on female voices in the media found last year. The report also found women were only quoted in 31% of the most prominent sports stories that are published, and about 31% of sports stories focused on a female subject.
These statistics show that...
