Female Sports Reporters In Male Locker Rooms

Coaches and other team personnel shouldn t be either.

Female sports reporters in male locker rooms. Back then almost all sports reporters were men and access to the players as soon as they came off the ice was important to every sports writer because that s when the most genuine reactions and quotes were gotten. For women covering sports going in locker room was never about nudity. For point 2 that shouldn t be a gender thing at all. During the 1977 world series the mlb commissioner s office banned then sports illustrated reporter melissa ludtke from both teams locker rooms overriding the new york yankees blessing and a majority vote in the los angeles dodgers clubhouse.

Boys will always be boys. Don cherry s views on women in sports locker rooms are his own. Last year female nhl reporters piled on don cherry after he said women don t belong in the men s locker room players are too rude he argued. Has the same rules as the nba.

Women are always going to. Ludtke and time inc. No one covered up or said anything. The men s and women s locker rooms were ajacent and had very similar entrances.

Filed a civil rights lawsuit months later. Many noticed her come in. One day a young women wandered in to the men s room with her head down. The women s locker rooms in the wnba are open to all reporters for a specified period of time both before the game starts and after it is over as locker rooms are in the major men s sports such as.

A male reporter asked coaches bep guidolin and fred shero as a joke if they would let women in the room. No media should ever be allowed in the locker room at any time male or female. There will always be the player who walks naked through the locker room to make the female reporters and the male reporters uncomfortable. Male reporters are in women s locker rooms all the time.

It just happened that the room was rather quiet at that moment no one talking but fairly busy with quite a few nude guys. A female reporter conducts post game interviews with members of a men s soccer team in the locker room.