Women Reporters in Locker Rooms

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"More and more women have been making inroads into traditionally male-dominated occupations, and one of these is sports reporting in all its forms--writing, broadcasting, interviewing. The response shows many that professional sports players and coaches have a good deal to learn about equality, but at the same time the intrusion of women into the locker room raises a number of questions about proper conduct on both sides. The experiences of a number of the women in this profession will illustrate the matter.


Mariah Burton Nelson works in this arena, and she has found that women sports writers and sportscasters are often made the brunt of sexual jokes in the locker room and are treated as less welcome than male reporters. She asks why this is so and offers one opinion when she writes that the locker room culture is a..."

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