women athletes and sexism

The 2016 Summer Olympics were held in August. How did mass media treat women athletes in comparison to male athletes? 1) Identify a female athlete and evaluate how she was treated by mass media during the Olympics. *Once you’ve identified your person, write to me to see if you can proceed (I want to make sure everyone isn’t writing about the same person). When thinking about the person, be prepared to dig deep, go beyond the surface and think about the destructive tendencies of mass media. Also, it would be helpful if you can compare how they treated your person with a male athlete. *Your outside resources must be academically appropriate material- journals, scholarly works, etc. Avoid Wikipedia and random blogs! Finally, address the following: What would you do to prevent this from happening again?? Be specific in what you see for the future based on historical and contemporary data. *** There are multiple angles you can take with this topic- from issues of sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism... all of which would have to be specifically focused on the impact it has on women in America today. This should be a persuasive paper with at least 3 outside resources (meaning, scholarly works, academic journals). Have a title and works cited page.