This week I am going to talk about a woman who is a soccer standout from brazil, her name is Marta. Over recent years international women sports have become very popular and now there are some international women who are recognizable. Marta, was one of the first women international soccer players because she is so dangerous on the field. Her being dominant on the field only helped women athletes around the world grain attention. When you think of the most famous women athletes they are all Americans this is because of title 9 and how hard America fought for women athletes' rights. Now you are starting to see international women start to gain attention and rights in the sports world because of how America leed the way. Marta, was one of the first names to become recognized internationally because of how she performed in the world cup. Her performance on the field only helped her Brazilian teammates also gain attention and hopefully bright awareness of how important women's sports and athletes are around the world.
The past two weeks I have written about how the media portrays women around men's sports. This week I am going to dip into who is running the media outlets and what role women have inside them. Many of the sports news outlets today such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Bleacher Report all have CEOs who are men. Men also dominate the employes inside of each of those companies. Barstool Sports, however, is a little different. Let me start off by giving you a little background on Barstool. Barstool started out as a betting newspaper by Dave Portnoy. Yes, a man started Barstool but when it was time to grow Barstool Dave went out and found a female CEO. The CEO of Barstool today is Erika Nardini. Erika being the CEO of Barstool puts Barstool apart from the other sports media outlets and often speaks openly about being a CEO of a male dominate platform. Many people have given Barstool a hard time for things that bloggers have said about women but they have a women CEO and they have a han
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