Özet:

The aim of this study is to reveal the challenges that women journalists working in Turkish sports media experience in their professions through a gender-based analysis. The phenomenology design, which is one of the quality research patterns, was used in the research. For the data of the study, nine women sports journalists were interviewed using a semi-configured interview form prepared according to the quality research techniques. The obtained audio recordings are written by the researcher using the content analysis method. According to the data obtained from the talks, because the sports media is a sector that is dominated by men and there are not many women’s positions in the sector, women’s sports journalists are experiencing a number of difficulties in the beginning of their career and are forced to fight much more than men to prove themselves.  Women’s journalists are becoming more disadvantaged in this sector in terms of position, prestige and profit, and they are constantly forced to protect themselves, especially when they’re ‘young and single’ because they can be subjected to sexual harassment.

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