From Salon.com — What’s on TV: Not women’s sports
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 July 2010 07:49 Written by spence Tuesday, 13 July 2010 07:49
Less than 2 percent of sports news covers female athletes, but why?
The gender gap in TV sports coverage is widening, according to a new study from the University of Southern California. Wait, did I say “gender gap”? Sorry, I meant “gender cavernous abyss.” In a sample of six weeks of ESPN’s SportsCenter and Los Angeles area network news sports broadcasts, researchers found that less than 2 percent of the coverage was devoted to women’s sports, a plunge from the high — and that is truly a relative term — of 8.7 percent recorded a decade ago.
