Volume 36 December 2006 www.agsa.org.au in alliance in this issue GirlsGirls andand SportSport Eyes on the ball: Cricket at Seymour College The Alliance of Girls’ Schools PO Box 22 From the President... Cleveland Qld 4163 Australia Beth Blackwood Executive Officer Jan Butler T/F: +61 7 3488 2686 E:
[email protected] President Summer has announced its arrival in Australia the first survey in 1980. However, results showed Beth Blackwood through the shift in media coverage from football to only 10.7% of newspaper sports space was devoted to Presbyterian Ladies’ cricket. So … with the theme of girls and sport in women’s sport, compared with the men’s at 79.1%. College, WA mind for this edition of in Alliance I could not help Women were often described in ways that stressed but reflect on the equity issue with regard to weakness, passivity and insignificance, deflecting Executive television and other media coverage of women and attention from their athleticism. Like Schell’s Kitty Guerin sport. research, the Australian Sports Commission reported Our Lady of Mercy that sportswomen “were frequently portrayed as girls, College, NSW A website search revealed that I am not alone in no matter what their age”. Helen Jackson pondering the issue. Lea Ann Schell, in her article Pascoe Vale Girls’ (Dis)Empowering Images? Media Representations of Schell asks whether we should be concerned and College, Vic Women in Sport states that “Since … the fitness boom concludes that such portrayal “greatly restricts the Christine Jenkins of the 1980s, the number of girls and women availability of role models and representations that Korowa Anglican Girls’ participating in competitive and recreation sports has depict a wider range of women involved with sport, School, Vic dramatically increased.