Australian statistics

These statistics are quite dated, but show that even over a period of 16 years, the increase was only slight.

These statistics which are Australian have come from http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/assets/pubs/industry/info_mediawomen.pdf

Gender breakdown of sports media coverage, 1996

	Women’s	Mixed	Men’s
Radio	1.4%	3.5%	95.1%
Television	2%	41.8%	56.2%
Newspaper	10.7%	10.2%	79.1%

(Source: Phillips 1997; mixed sports coverage reports on both male and

female participants.)

Quantity of newspaper coverage

Newspaper coverage of women’s sport between 1980 and 1996

Year	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996
Women’s sport coverage	2.0%	1.3%	2.5%	4.5%	10.7%

(Source: Phillips 1997; data does not include mixed sport coverage.)

Television Coverage, 1996

	Commercial	Non- commercial	Combined
Women’s sport	0.2%	20%	2.0%
Mixed sport	42%	40%	41.8%
Men’s sport	57.8%	40%	56.2%

(Source: Phillips 1997; combined stations include ABC, SBS, Channel 7, Nine Network Australia and Network Ten; includes all sport on selected television stations, as well as current affairs programs.)