Can Male Reporters Go In Women S Locker Rooms

So we asked christie blatchford a female sports reporter for the globe and mail in the 70s and christine simpson sportsnet s long time nhl correspondent to tell us about their experiences.

Can male reporters go in women s locker rooms. Melissa ludtke a writer for sports illustrated is shown on the job in her office in new york jan. There will always be the player who walks naked through the locker room to make the female reporters and the male reporters uncomfortable. Last year female nhl reporters piled on don cherry after he said women don t belong in the men s locker room players are too rude he argued. Male reporters are in women s locker rooms all the time.

The women s locker rooms in the wnba are open to all reporters for a specified period of time both before the game starts and after it is over as locker rooms are in the major men s sports such. A male reporter asked coaches bep guidolin and fred shero as a joke if they would let women in the room. A viewer asked why women can go into men s locker rooms for their smut interviews 9news sports reporter cealey godwin decided to answer him. They looked at each other shrugged and said sure recalls ms.

23 1978 when she was involved in a court case to allow women reporters in sports locker rooms.