Women in Sports Broadcasting

(Kennedy , 2006

Since sports broadcasting is regarded as the dream job ' because of the opportunities to meet famous sports personalities , women professionals tend to struggle to work long hours and meet the demands of such highly hectic task . Hence , if women broadcast journalists are not broadcasting or working on other task assigned by the network chances are they are still researching and finding ways to improve their craft . In fact , they have to regularly carry on with their job while at the same time still learn their profession . This is because of

the rigid rivalry between them and their male counterparts and the requirements of their profession (Kennedy , 2006

Above all the mentioned struggles , gender problem still hurts the industry . Particular incident of gender discrimination is evidently exemplified within the industry with male broadcaster directly showing prejudice against female broadcaster . In fact , the statement that while women should not be restricted in the kitchen but they do not definitely fit in the dugout is a direct attack or discredit not only on a particular person but the female population in general (Kennedy , 2006 While the problem has notably improved over the last years , women in sports broadcasting should still continue to guard their right and dignity against any kind of gender-related discriminations which their male counterparts are still capable to do (Kennedy , 2006

The issue or problem on the challenges facing women is also attributed to what statistics are showing . This is because the apparent big gap between the ratio of male broadcasters as compared with female broadcaster results into opportunities likely to favor the majority and sadly , prejudice tends to harm more the minority . Citing Dodds , Slagle wrote that women in sports broadcasting meet the test of desiring to be received in a profession which does not tend to...