“…The group, which originated in connection to the feminist strike on 8 March 2018, became a form of online activism against the discrimination and the precarious situation of women in labour, especially in journalism and communications (Bernal-Triviño & Sanz-Martos, 2020). Similarly, Brazilian women sports journalists virtually gathered under the hashtag #DeixaElaTrabalhar which was born from a protest video created by 50 sports journalists (RWB report, 2020) to draw attention to the harassment and discrimination suffered within the field of sports journalism (Ramires, 2020). In both countries, there is evidence that the macho culture of the newsrooms -which several authors in the field have discussed in other regions (Melki & Mallat, 2019;Ross & Padovai, 2019;Allan, 2019) are the sexist environment, job insecurity or the wage gap affecting females within the media industry in Spain (Valcarcel, Fernández, and Castro-Martinez 2019), and the need for women journalists in Brazil to prove their professional worth to their bosses and colleagues daily (Ramires, 2020).…”