In a column published on the Le Monde newspaper website on Sunday, 150 journalists and journalism students denounce "the inferiorization of women in sports writing" and ask that women "be better represented in sports media".
"The inferiorization of women in sports writing is no longer bearable," denounced Sunday 150 journalists and journalism students, who signed a platform so that women "are better represented in sports media".
"No more than any other field, sport belongs only to men. We want to be at the forefront to tell, to comment, to analyze, to lead", write the signatories of this forum posted on the site from the newspaper Le Monde.
"10% of the 3,000 journalists"
It was initiated by a collective called Women Sports Journalists, co-founded in particular by Chrystelle Bonnet (L'Equipe Mag) and Laurie Delhostal (Canal +).
Among the signatories, there are journalists from the written press or audiovisual media, including figures known to the general public such as Anne-Laure Bonnet (ex-Téléfoot and BeIn Sport) or Maryse Ewanjé-Epée (RMC Sport).
"On television and radio - the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) has just revealed - the speaking time of women 'in the field of sport' represents 13%: on a day devoted to sport, we listen to men talking about it for twenty-one hours, ”they argue.
"If the profession is almost parity, in sport, we are around 10% of the 3,000 journalists. And the more we go up in the hierarchy, the more likely we are to find the dahu rather than a woman", continue- they.
"In 2021, the treatment of sport by men for men about men is no longer bearable", concludes the forum.
It is published in parallel with the broadcast, Sunday on Canal +, of the documentary "I am not a slut, I am a journalist", by Marie Portolano.
This documentary on women sports journalists retraces more than 40 years of struggle for parity in this very masculine sector, between condescending glances, remarks on the physique or even harassment.