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Toni BruceToni Bruce

Toni Bruce is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. She is on the board of WomenSport International and a former news and sports reporter, who recently published 15 ‘rules’ of media coverage of sportswomen, distilled from international and New Zealand research.

The Olympics: or the Festival of Sporting Women

5 August 2016 by Toni Bruce

Sportswomen are consistently marginalised in today’s media but the Olympics are a beacon of hope for equal, quality coverage, writes Toni Bruce. For the next few weeks, I’ll be glued to the television and Internet enjoying the quadrennial Festival of Sporting Women. Even though it has another name you might know better – the Olympic … Read more

Categories Featured, Sports Tags Olympics, Rio 2016, Women in Sport

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