Women Sports Journalists in Switzerland: Between Assignment and Negotiation of Roles.

The article considers the working experience of women sports journalists. Women sports journalists for French language newspapers in Switzerland are examined to determine how the power structures of their organization affect their work. It is found that the work experience of the women was dependent upon the relationship between their status in journalism and their personalities. Three strategies are identified through which the women journalists coped with their situations, either by conforming to the male-dominated concept of sports journalism, by resisting it actively, or by resisting it through adaptations of the male role.