CIGS student rewrites the balance on sport reporting

by Olivia Morris (MA Gender Studies)

Women's sport is massively underreported in national print press, and the percentage of female writers publishing articles on sport is even lower. I wrote a match report on the England V New Zealand rugby game played on Saturday 19th November at Harlequins Stoop for Kettle. The aim of the article is to provide a detailed report of the game as well as an insight into my experience of attending it.

As a rugby player myself, I find it frustrating that men's rugby is defined as just 'rugby' whereas female teams are always 'women's rugby' e.g. England Rugby and England Women's Rugby (as is with most sports). Instead, I have titled the two teams either by their country or how they are better known in the rugby world as the "Red Roses" (England) and the "Black Ferns" (New Zealand).

You can read the full match report here:

http://www.kettlemag.co.uk/article/old-mutual-wealth-series-england-20-25-new-zealand