In: Psychology
Imagine that you are a sports journalist. You’ve noticed that women’s sports make up only 4% of your employer’s coverage. So, you decide to meet with your editor to see if this can be changed. You are convinced that if fans and spectators had more access to women’s sports, there would be a lot of interest for these games and events. After expressing your point of view, your editor response:
“It’s just not true . . . Men are bigger, stronger, and faster. And people only want to see the biggest, strongest, fastest athletes. We can’t risk spending resources on covering women’s sport when so few people are going to watch.”
You are convinced that this is dead wrong and indeed you are prepared to fire back with three reasons and/or examples that prove your editor is mistaken.
What are the three reasons and/or examples? Describe all three in detail, just as you would describe them to your editor.
There is importance of women’s sport coverage as this coverage will indeed help women to be more motivated in participation of sports. The stigma of thinking that it is only men who is stronger and can excel in sports is totally untrue. Here are three examples which to highlight this
1. Mary Kom is the only Indian women who have won a bronze medal in the 2012 summer Olympic. She then participated in many other boxing championship and grab medals to her name. Among which was the gold medal which she won at the Asian Games in 2014.
2. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is a badminton player from India, who according to BWF world ranking report is in no 2. She is the only Indian to win The Korea Open Super Series. She has even won a silver medal in the 2016 summer Olympics.
3. In US women national team won an amount of $US2 million for soccer in the Women’s world cup. In the same year, the US nation teams were knocked out in the first round itself.