Sidelined: Women's Sports in Mass Media

Mar 8, 2019

12:30pm – 1:30pm CT

Recording: Sidelined: Women's Sports in Mass Media, Mar 8, 2019

Thanks to Title IX, women are participating in sports in record numbers. But despite better gender equality in sports participation, the media coverage of women’s sports is out of step — with potentially devastating consequences.

When research of women’s sports in media began, women rarely appeared in sports news coverage, except to be portrayed as sex objects or the butt of a joke. Over time, that overt sexism has been replaced by a general absence of women altogether, or limited resources being devoted to the coverage.

SIDELINED: WOMEN'S SPORTS IN MASS MEDIA will discuss the ways women athletes are represented (and misrepresented) across a variety of channels including film, sports news, and new media — and offer actionable solutions for better representation.



Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

Jane McManus

New York Daily News

Jamil Smith

Rolling Stone

Erica Vanstone

Women’s Flat Track Derby Association

Amy Winston

Broad Appeal Productions, LLC

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