Token responses to gendered newsrooms: Factors in the career-related decisions of female newspaper sports journalists

Journalism

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 627-646

  Hardin, Marie ^a   Whiteside, Erin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gendered organizations; Social identity; Sports journalism; Tokenism; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349528119     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14648849090100050501     Document Type: Review

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