The number of women competing as professional athletes has grown in number year after year, but for some reason the media seems to have lost interest. A study by the University of Southern California shows that the networks covering women’s sports is in a twenty-year low.
Let’s do the math: More women + More cable channels = Less coverage….Just doesn’t make sense!
The graph below, shows that in 2004 6.5% of network news coverage was dedicated to women’s sports, but today that number is only 1.6%.
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