Interview: Dr. Cheryl Cooky on the Study of Women's Televised Sports

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Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week Jessica Luther interviews Dr. Cheryl Cooky about the 30 year study she helped run that looks at the quantity and quality of TV news and highlights for women’s sports. The latest iteration is titled "One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women’s Televised Sports, 1989–2019. They discuss the abysmal and consistent lack of women’s sports coverage, the term “gender bland sexism” and if there is hope for changing things. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ To read the "One and Done" study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21674795211003524 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, y'all?
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0:44.2	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:45.1	Jessica here.
0:47.4	I'm joined today by Dr. Cheryl Cookie.
0:52.4	She is a co-author of the excellent book No Slam Dunk, Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change.
0:53.9	Most importantly, for the conversation
0:55.4	you're about to hear, Dr. Cookie is one of the lead researchers on a three decades-long study
1:00.0	into the amount of space and the kind of reporting women's sports gets on television. Spoiler
1:05.1	alert, it's not great, any of it. The latest version of the study was recently released
1:10.3	in the journal
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