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Originally Posted by rubecube
Really? How many female announcers and colour commentators can you name offhand? I can think of Cassie Campbell and one woman that does some of the less marquee college football games for ESPN.
EDIT: Here's a list of current TSN on-air personalities. Men vastly outnumber women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._personalities |
There are 16 sports centre anchors, 8 are women. If you want to ask why women aren't holding positions that are hosted by former players/coaches/personnel of the sport they are covering well I can't help you. Along those lines if you have a personality that's been writing about that particular sport for 10, 20 or 30 years and they are on tv, they likely deserve it for some reason. Are there a ton of women knocking on the door desperate to become a play by play or colour analysts? If there are, we have a problem. I don't think it's the case. People don't care who's doing play by play as long as they're good. Cassie Campbell just isn't that good and at this point she's the best female, at least for hockey. That's not to say she isn't getting better and won't get way better over time.
Why can't it ever just be that fewer women are interested in those positions? If 1 women for every 10 men are interested in working in any sports media position (on air personality, behind scenes editing, writing etc) then yes it should be difficult to get into that industry just as it would be for any man to get into that industry.
Do we honestly think that it's easy for men to get into this industry? It's incredibly difficult.
We don't always need to look for sexism as reason there are fewer women in an industry. Is it sexism that fewer men are nurses or could it possibly be that fewer men are interested in being a nurse.
Sometimes there's nothing to be upset about and it's just the differences between women and men.
Before you answer that men control these industries I realize that but I'm also not prepared to say that they didn't earn it. Where I work management is made up of more males than females. On the surface it looks bad but to become management there are very specific criteria. Of all management spots I've seen hired (about 10) 2 - 3 women met the criteria to about 15 men. The criteria is very basic, experience completing specific course work. That's it, it's not sexist, but it might look that way from the outside.