Female Sports Reporters In Male Locker Rooms

The men s and women s locker rooms were ajacent and had very similar entrances.

Female sports reporters in male locker rooms.

There will always be the player who walks naked through the locker room to make the female reporters and the male reporters uncomfortable. The women s locker rooms in the wnba are open to all reporters for a specified period of time both before the game starts and after it is over as locker rooms are in the major men s sports such as. Many noticed her come in. It was about access to the players.

Filed a civil rights lawsuit months later. Don cherry s views on women in sports locker rooms are his own. No media should ever be allowed in the locker room at any time male or female. One day a young women wandered in to the men s room with her head down.

Boys will always be boys. Has the same rules as the nba. A male reporter asked coaches bep guidolin and fred shero as a joke if they would let women in the room. During the 1977 world series the mlb commissioner s office banned then sports illustrated reporter melissa ludtke from both teams locker rooms overriding the new york yankees blessing and a majority vote in the los angeles dodgers clubhouse.

Coaches and other team personnel shouldn t be either. A female reporter conducts post game interviews with members of a men s soccer team in the locker room. A few years back in the wake of the controversy surrounding the treatment of tv azteca reporter ines sainz by some members of the new york jets ann killion of sports illustrated addressed this persistent myth. Ludtke and time inc.

Back then almost all sports reporters were men and access to the players as soon as they came off the ice was important to every sports writer because that s when the most genuine reactions and quotes were gotten. Last year female nhl reporters piled on don cherry after he said women don t belong in the men s locker room players are too rude he argued. For women covering sports going in locker room was never about nudity. No one covered up or said anything.

Women are always going to. For point 2 that shouldn t be a gender thing at all.