Patriots founder Billy Sullivan wouldn’t have it…Red Auerbach ordered bathrobes for his players…Red Sox players have been romantically linked…At different times and in different places, women sports reporters have had to work very hard to be accepted…With more and more women going into the field, the landscape and the mindset have changed…But if there’s one thing becoming rapidly apparent, it’s that they can do their job as well as the men…It’s no longer a novelty for a player to find himself \u00a0facing a woman reporter, a reporter, perhaps, with a different point of view said Jade McCarthy of NESN at a recent Boston University Sports Journalism seminar, “You ask questions differently, you think of different questions sometimes…men and women think differently sometimes, which is all the more reason for women to report news, sports, politics, all of the above.”<\/p>\n
McCarthy and Shalise Manza Young of the Boston Globe were quick to point out that even though more women were becoming sports journalists, numbers alone won’t change perception…”It’s good if they know what they’re talking about. \u00a0If they are just there to look cute and hold a microphone as a way of baiting players, it’s not helping us at all,” said Young….McCarthy added, “I think that other women working in sports are our best friend and our worst enemy at the same time depending on how they carry themselves”<\/p>\n
Women like sports, like watching sports and some even like reporting on sports…They don’t want special treatment and in fact would rather not even be noticed for anything but doing their job…As McCarthy summed it up perfectly, “The only thing I want to stand out in a locker room or anyplace that you’re doing your job is for the questions i’m asking.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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