This study examines journalists’ working experiences to understand how they hinder the recognition of female footballers’ performances. It relies on 16 semi-structured interviews with Swiss sports journalists on Swiss French-speaking television. Guided by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, the study shows that advancements in the recognition of women’s football are promoted by a combination of external actors’ economic and political powers, while hindrances arise from internal factors within sports journalism. The embodied norms, routines and professional practices of journalists – that define performance as physical capital and naturalize hierarchies between women’s and men’s football – are disrupted by the credit (i.e. symbolic capital) given to women’s football by the Swiss football league and sponsors for political and economic reasons. This specific case of football enhances our understanding of the cultural and social factors that hinder the recognition and appreciation of performances by women in sports. Further, the study largely highlights how texts and their symbolic power are embedded in the social conditions of information production.

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体育记者的象征力量受到外界对女性体育表现认可的挑战

这项研究调查了记者的工作经历，以了解他们如何阻碍对女足球运动员表现的认可。它依赖于瑞士法语电视台对瑞士体育记者的 16 次半结构化采访。在皮埃尔·布迪厄理论的指导下，该研究表明，外部行为者的经济和政治力量的结合推动了女足认可度的提高，而体育新闻内部因素则产生了障碍。记者的具体规范、惯例和专业实践——将表现定义为物质资本，并使女足和男足之间的等级自然化——被瑞士足球联盟和政治和政治赞助商给予女足的信用（即象征资本）所破坏。经济上的原因。足球的这一具体案例增强了我们对阻碍女性在体育运动中的表现得到认可和欣赏的文化和社会因素的理解。此外，该研究在很大程度上强调了文本及其象征力量如何嵌入信息生产的社会条件中。