30 years of looking at the intersection of gender, sports, and television

This longitudinal study led by Michael
 A.
 Messner,
 Ph.D.
 (Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University 
of 
Southern 
California) and 
 Cheryl
 Cooky,
 Ph.D.
 (American Studies, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Purdue
 University) began in 1989, with the first report published in 2010. Since then, three updates have been published.

Gender in Televised Sports: News and Highlights Shows, 1989-2009 (2010)

CFR Study Reveals Dearth of TV Coverage of Women’s Sports

‘It’s Dude Time!’: A Quarter Century of Excluding Women’s Sports in Televised News and Highlights Shows (2015)

5- year update to a 25-year longitudinal study, indicates that the quantity of coverage of women’s sports in televised sports news and highlights shows remains dismally low.

‘From Fizzle to Sizzle!’ Televised Sports News and the Production of Gender-Bland Sexism (2017)

This article draws upon data collected as part of a 25-year longitudinal analysis of tele- vised coverage of women’s sports to provide a window into how sexism operates during a postfeminist sociohistorical moment.

One and done: The long eclipse of women’s televised sports, 1989-2019 (2021)

The most recent update to this now 30-year study.