Mulher, mãe e atleta: os desafios da maternidade nos esportes de alto rendimento no Brasil

Abstract

This technical report refers to an experimental project, which presents a special article called “Woman, mother and athlete” that refers to the undergraduate final project for the Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. The article intends to tell the challenges experienced by women athletes from different sports who have been through motherhood along with high-performance sport and how they remained in the profession, based on the reports told by them, in addition to the randomized research on the matters of gender in sports and the media. Given the news report genre, a humanized approach was used and seeks to naturally treat motherhood in sports environments. This report brings the theoretical basis of the work and presents the report from the experience of elaboration of the proposed product.