Still on the sidelines? Women sports in media

Gopher Women’s Hockey is champions in every sense of the word. There’s no question they rule the ice. Sunday’s Frozen Four win proves it. But when it comes to the media, the Gophers, along with other winning women, are still forced to sit on the sidelines. “It’s a complicated time because while we are seeing participation levels rise for women and girls in sport we see stagnation and in some cases a downturn in the amount of coverage that women and girls in sport receive,” Austin Calhoun, an affiliated scholar with the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, which is based at the University of Minnesota, said. Read More…