Jane’s Project

Gottesman started to study sports photos in the media. She counted the photos of men. She counted the photos of women. There were many more photos of men. Also, there were not many photos of women as they played sports.

photograph of a large stack of newspapers
Men and Women Competing at the Winter Olympics

Men and Women Competing at the Winter Olympics

  • illustration of bar graph symbol for men—a blue bar Men

  • illustration of bar graph symbol for women—an orange bar Women

In Other Words

  • the media newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV