Sports journalism is less sexist than it was – but there’s still a long way to go | Gabriella Bennett

If future generations of female sport writers are to flourish, we must be united in confronting gender-based discrimination

In the depths of a Scottish winter last year, a group of female journalists – myself included – huddled in front of our laptops to discuss our annual mentoring scheme for up-and-coming female talent.

To address the fact that so few sportswriters applied previously, we decided to ringfence five places for them. But we ran into a problem: it was impossible to find enough journalists to fill the slots.