Mulheres e jornalismo esportivo: possibilidades e limitações em um campo masculino

Abstract

The aim of this article is to approach the possibilities and limitations women face to get access, remain, and succeed in the field of sports journalism. The research is based on a qualitative method and supported by a set of techniques such as participant observations and semi-structured interviews. The interviews were conducted with 38 female journalists that were working or had worked in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Theoretically based on feminist’s theories on sports and media, this text takes advantage of the analyses of authors and authoresses that combine those approaches. In doing so they highlight the profile of these women, their professional trajectory, the spaces allowed in, the constraints and embarrassments that they are submitted to and the strategies that they use to move through this major masculine field.