Praveen

Mon 19 Aug 2024 15.30 BST Share Ikeep being told the sports media industry is getting better, that there are lots more opportunities for women who want to work in it. I’m not sure. It was great to see the BBC’s Olympics-presenting team being led by women this summer and there were more female faces pitchside at the men’s Euros too. But there is still an awful long way to go. The micro-aggressions that have peppered my 16-year career and those of my female friends and contemporaries still very much exist, with the constant need to prove yourself more than an equally or less-qualified man. I don’t even see a change in how people treat me now that I am “talent” rather than the runner/dogsbody I was when I began working in broadcasting.