Working Overtime: The Limitations, Challenges and Opportunities Facing Women in NCAA Basketball Sports Information
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Date
2016-06
Authors
Mains, Courtney
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
This research explores why when public relations is a female-dominated profession, sports public relations (i.e . sports information) is a largely male-dominated
profession, specifically by looking at NCAA basketball sports information directors (SIDs). The findings suggest that there is a clear gender imbalance in sports information and even greater disparities when it comes to the level of sports women oversee and
upward mobility within sports information. Systematic and structural factors within the industry ultimately influence women's decisions to leave the field. With a lack of women in these sports information roles personal interactions and relationships sacrificed.
Description
56 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of the School of Journalism and Communication and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2016.
Keywords
Sports information, Gender, NCAA, Public relations, College athletics, SID, Basketball, Women in sports