Why Are We Erasing Women Athletes? (feat. Dr. Nicole LaVoi)

Token CEO

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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From salaries to media coverage, there's a divide between how the sports industry is approached based on whether the athletes are men or women. Today, Erika speaks with Dr. Nicole LaVoi, a sports sociologist whose research focuses on gender in the sports industry, about some of the root causes. Erika also runs through headlines of the week, answers your questions, and offers tips on how to manage a bad manager. (00:01:48) - Headlines (00:09:01) - Q&A (00:15:00) - Business of Women's Sports (00:36:43) - Adulting

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0:00.0	Hey, token CEO listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.
0:06.9	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music.
0:11.0	So for women athletes, the media portrays this idea that it's more important what your body looks like
0:17.4	than what your body can do, athletically. Yeah, that's interesting. So it's the agency of females.
0:27.2	Reducing the agency of women. It's so it's so fucking maddening. It's 2021.
0:39.8	It's Thursday, September 30th, last day of September, last I checked. This is episode 183 of the token
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1:38.0	Use promo code Erica and get 25% off at checkout. We have headlines. We are going to talk about the
1:44.4	implosion happening at Aussie Media. We're going to get into Q&A. Last week we announced our
1:50.9	Barstool hockey cup. So we're going to talk about the business of women's sports. And then finally,
1:56.4	we're going to try to adult and talk about managing upwards. Let's talk about Aussie Media. So this
2:02.8	story has been all over the journal, all over the New York Times. Ben Smith, who used to be the
2:08.7	editor in chief of Buzzfeed, wrote a damning piece in the New York Times about it. Aussie Media has
2:14.5	been rumored to be inflating their performance numbers. Dirty little secret. Everyone in the industry
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