Jeannie Morris

Jeannie Morris became one of the first women to write a sports column for the Daily News.

She later became a sportscaster and host for a local channel of NBC TV, where she experienced discrimination. Morris was denied press box access at a Bears vs. Vikings NFL game in Minnesota where she was forced to sit outside a level up from the press box, during a snow storm. "It wasn’t until 1978 that the league issued a rule granting male and female reporters equal access to the locker rooms and other facilities (Gunther et al., 2011)" (Arnold et al., 2015). Women, like Morris, especially years before and after the implementation of Title IX experienced such discrimination, sexism and misogyny solely based on male hegemony and belief that women could not understand or be a part of male dominated field.