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Research results relating to women's participation in sport and media coverage of women's sport
Title: Research results relating to women's participation in sport and media coverage of women's sport
Category: Arts & Humanities
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Research results relating to women's participation in sport and media coverage of women's sport
women's participation in sport
• Fewer women are involved in regular physical activity and sport than men. Estimated percentage of Austral ians, 14 years and over, who participate in organised sport:
Male 24% Female 16%
• Among registered sports participants, women are out numbered by men by more than 3 to 1. Of 6.5 million registered participants in sport in Australia in 1990, 1.5 million were female. Percentage of total sports participants (1990):
Male 77% Female 23%
• More girls drop out of sport than boys …showed first 75 words of 335 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 335 total…of men playing sports outnumber those of women playing sports by roughly twelve to one.
Television
• In a survey of television sports coverage, averaged across six major channels, women's sport occupied 1.3% of the total sport time.
Sports journalists
• Out of twenty-six major metropolitan newspapers across all States there is not a single female Sports Editor.
• Out of twenty-one metropolitan television stations across Australia there is not a single female Head of Sport.
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