Cenk Uygur
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How Many Female Athletes Get the Sports Illustrated Cover?
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May 19, 2013
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2:39Now Playing"A recent study by the Department of Sociology at the University of Louisville asks a very good question: Where are all the women in Sports Illustrated? Unless they're models wearing bikinis, they're certainly not on the cover. Researchers found that of the 716 SI issues published between 2000 and 2011, a mere 35 of them had covers featuring female athletes. That's only 4.9%."*
Sports Illustrated is famous for their swimsuit covers...but how many female athletes have actually appeared on the cover? Is the problem with SI, or sports in general? And are only "sexy" male athletes on the cover? Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (TYT University) discuss.
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