Brazil’s female sports reporters demand end to harassment

By AFP
March 28, 2018

RIO DE JANEIRO: Female Brazilian sports journalists fed up with being groped, insulted and kissed while on the job are showing sexual harassment the red card. An online campaign under the hashtag #DeixaElaTrabalhar, or #LetHerWork, is making waves simply by demanding that the male-dominated sports world treat female reporters with respect. Several women journalists appear in a campaign video that opens with footage of Bruna Dealtry, from Esporte Interativo, recoiling from a shirtless football supporter when he suddenly kisses her face as she reports from a busy fan zone. ‘Recently, it also happened to me,’ a reporter says, before another adds, ‘We are women and professionals.’ ‘We just want to work in peace,’ another says in the clip, viewed on Twitter more than 730,000 times.

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