Female athletes, women's sport, and the sport media commercial complex: Have we really “come a long way, baby”?

Fink, Janet

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2014.05.001

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“…Majority of those articles deal with gender inequality in proportion of media coverage devoted to men/women Billings, 2000, 2001;Higgs et al, 2003;Billings and Young, 2015). The rest are mainly theoretical papers discussing the issue in general (Trolan, 2013;Chalabaev et al, 2013;Fink, 2015). We failed to find and we are not aware of existence of a single article from the financial or economic field of study which would discuss this issue.…”

Section: Gender In Sports -Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Finally, Fink (2015) reviewed and summarized the quantitative and qualitative differences in media coverage devoted to men and women and discussed the negative impact of this difference on consumer's perceptions on female athletes. The author argues that women are "infantilized" and framed, and that there are different production techniques utilized for women and men sports.…”

Section: Gender In Sports -Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Big Is the Prize Money Gap? - Analysis of Prize Money in 2016 Grand Slam Tournaments

Svoboda¹,

Rakovská²

2017

FAI

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Since 2007 all Grand Slam tournaments have offered equal prize money for male and female tennis players. Although men and women are paid equally in Grand Slams they still play a different number of best-of sets -men play best-of-five set matches while women play best-of-three set matches. Those two competing circumstances created a financial gap in prize money paid to women and men for the unit of effort in a tennis play -for a game. The present paper estimates this financial gap for 2016 Grand Slam tournaments. Moreover, it demonstrates the nominal magnitude of this gap and its effect on year-to-year increasing prize money that are paid to winners. The results showed that women on average obtained 60% more prize money for a game played than men in all four 2016 Grand Slams.

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Section: Gender In Sports -Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Gender In Sports -Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Big Is the Prize Money Gap? - Analysis of Prize Money in 2016 Grand Slam Tournaments

Svoboda¹,

Rakovská²

2017

FAI

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“…Since that time, I have understood sport as inherently spatial and political and now seek to outline some of the possibilities for feminist sport geography to influence and even reconceptualise leisure and sport management, suggesting ways by which cultural geographers can progress the field. As women's sport continues to change to include those from grassroots to elite and professional teams, it influences both participation trends and intervenes in the sport/media/industry complex (Fink, ; Maguire, ). It is in this context that I argue it is vital to develop how we conceptualise the “sport assemblage,” accounting for the ways in which sport and its management are spatial and gendered in specific and persevering ways.…”

Section: Space For Women and Sport: A Named Sport Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making “space” for women and girls in sport: an agenda for Australian geography

Pavlidis

2018

Geographical Research

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In this article, I argue that there is need to rethink how sport is inherently spatial and political. I outline the importance of doing research on the spatiality of inequality in sport and consider the ways in which ideas about affective atmospheres and textures can support nuanced understandings of sport, particularly for girls and women. From change rooms to board rooms, sporting fields to dance halls, sport happens somewhere—it is inherently spatial. Australian geographers continue to make scholarly and practical impacts of social and cultural significance by focusing on spatiality, but the geography of sport has yet to be fully developed in that respect, notwithstanding influential work on sport in rural communities and surfing and sporting events. Despite such contributions, there is still considerable work to be done, particularly in the area of women's and girls' team sport. Sport is an arena where geographers can make broader and, importantly, bolder contributions, and a concern with spatiality gives geographers unique and critical insights into sport and its manifestation across scales from the global to the local.

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“…Women's participation in sports is at an all-time high, as the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics reported nearly 45 percent of all athletes to be female [5]. However, women are still viewed as women first and athletes second [6].…”

Section: Background Women As Olympiansmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Content Analysis of Micro Aggressions in News Stories about F emale Athletes Participating in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics

Allen¹,

Cm²

2017

J Mass Communicat Journalism

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Female athletes, women's sport, and the sport media commercial complex: Have we really “come a long way, baby”?

Cited by 248 publications

References 64 publications

How Big Is the Prize Money Gap? - Analysis of Prize Money in 2016 Grand Slam Tournaments

How Big Is the Prize Money Gap? - Analysis of Prize Money in 2016 Grand Slam Tournaments

Making “space” for women and girls in sport: an agenda for Australian geography

A Content Analysis of Micro Aggressions in News Stories about F emale Athletes Participating in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics

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