When an athlete's relationships are more important than success in her sport
 

When an athlete's relationships are more important than success in her sport
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Gone are the days when female athletes were openly demeaned or ridiculed in sports coverage. The change is welcome, but it hasn’t exactly liberated women from stereotypes that ack**wledge their gender first and their success second.

Cheryl Cooky k**ws this firsthand. For the past two decades, she has watched countless hours of sports news in the name of gender equality. She's seen women become the butt of a crude joke or the subject of a ***ual fantasy. Such blatant ***ism is rare **w, but progress is surprisingly slow.

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