The portrayal of Female athletes or Women in the sports industry. Unfortunately, gender inequality still exists even when laws are changed to treat men and women fairly. There is a lack of media coverage when it comes to Female athletes due to the stereotype the society has for women. From collecting and understanding recent research articles, we can see that not many researchers use primary sources of data to support their claim when it comes to this topic. Even though secondary data can be just as useful but most articles share the same secondary data and they cite each other(they build on each other!!). In this review we evaluate articles to figure out which research is effective or ineffective by comparing and contrasting the research designs.
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The Scholar Laura J. Burton (2015) in her article uses qualitative data and mostly secondary sources to support her claim that there are a few women in leadership positions within sport. She supports her claim by multilevel examination of scholarship that contributes to understanding why there are so few women in leadership positions within sport from the last 15 years. Author Janet S. Fink (2015) explains, female athletes struggle with the media because they don’t get enough coverage, although 45% of 2012 London Olympics were Female Athletes. For example, Jones (2013) conducted a research where he studied three online coverage of the 2008 Olympics games from television broadcasts: ABC, BBC, CBC and TVNZ. The results showed that 25% of media coverage are female athletes. In addition, when Female athletes receive the attention from the media coverage it is often reinforced the gendered hierarchy of sport (Angelini, 2008; Angelini, MacAuthor, & Billings, 2012). This research study is also found on Blom, Lindsey C.; Abrell, Lura; Wilson, Matthew J.; Lape, Jennifer; Halbrook, Meghan; Judge, Lawrence W. (2011) article. They explain the stereotype the media has about
The Scholar Laura J. Burton (2015) in her article uses qualitative data and mostly secondary sources to support her claim that there are a few women in leadership positions within sport. She supports her claim by multilevel examination of scholarship that contributes to understanding why there are so few women in leadership positions within sport from the last 15 years. Author Janet S. Fink (2015) explains, female athletes struggle with the media because they don’t get enough coverage, although 45% of 2012 London Olympics were Female Athletes. For example, Jones (2013) conducted a research where he studied three online coverage of the 2008 Olympics games from television broadcasts: ABC, BBC, CBC and TVNZ. The results showed that 25% of media coverage are female athletes. In addition, when Female athletes receive the attention from the media coverage it is often reinforced the gendered hierarchy of sport (Angelini, 2008; Angelini, MacAuthor, & Billings, 2012). This research study is also found on Blom, Lindsey C.; Abrell, Lura; Wilson, Matthew J.; Lape, Jennifer; Halbrook, Meghan; Judge, Lawrence W. (2011) article. They explain the stereotype the media has about