To what extent does the media coverage of sport reinforce the concepts of hegemonic masculinity and emphasised femininity?

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One
of the primary ways that media coverage of sports promotes hegemonic
masculinity and emphasized femininity is by shedding greater limelight on male
athletes than their female counterparts in sports. Lewis (2014) revealed that the total broadcast time for
women’s sport was only one thousand hours every year, as well as the percentage
of media exposure being considerably low, as only “5% of media coverage in the
UK is devoted to women’s sport” (Lewis, 2014). Based on self-report results,
66.7% of participants chose that they always noticed male athletes on
newspapers, or sport covers. Hegemonic
masculinity is a practice that exalts men’s dominance in society and
approves the subordination of the common male population; it is always
constructed in relation to various subordinated masculinities as well as in
relation to women. Femininity on
the other hand refers to the nature of being womanly and having qualities that
the society perceives as being of a woman. Notably, there have been an
increased number of female athletes in sports over the years. However, research
analysing gender in sport show that men receive a considerable amount of limelight
compared to their female counterparts in any level of sports. Photography, news
articles, and other media coverage in sports are more rampant in presenting
news about male athletes than female athletes. For instance, in a study on the
news coverage of male and female athletes at the Indonesia Masters 2020 event,
from 62 news samples, only 24 articles covered female athletes, while 38
covered male athletes (Atlantis Press, 2020). This happened despite only a
small difference in the number of male and female athletes who won gold medals.
In this study, 38 articles covering male athletes gave similar information on
the three male athletes who had won gold medals thus ensuring unnecessary
repetition and male exaltation. Sports media is a very male-dominated
setting around the globe giving more visibility to sports traditionally
practised by men (e.g., football) and reporting massively about male athletes
and their performance. The International Sports Press Survey 2011 concluded
that more than 90% of the articles were written by male journalists and more
than 85% of the articles focused on sportsmen, with only 8% of the analysed
sport articles being written by named female journalists.

I am a student in England so please don’t use terms like soccer etc. Thank you so much!