Emma Lawrence

And when I first came in working in sports, so my first job was at Fox Sports News.

I've worked at Triple M for 10 years now.

Like on the whole, I think I was...

treated really well.

But I did feel there was this sense that you had to prove you knew what you were talking about.

I really felt like you had to prove yourself more.

than your male counterparts.

I mean, you get a few sly comments here and there, but maybe that was mostly a fabrication in my head that maybe I just put the pressure on myself like I had to.

Maybe my colleagues and employers didn't feel that to the same degree I did, but I always felt like, yeah, I definitely had to try and prove myself a bit more with my knowledge and

work ethic and whatnot.

So not that you couldn't get to where you wanted being a female, but that you just have to work that bit harder for it.

Yeah, for sure.

It's different in the sense that I guess there's two things.

So if it's one of your colleagues is a former player, right, it's completely different because they offer something that you don't.

They played the game.

So you can only ever really compare yourself to reporters or hosts.

So at times, yeah, throughout the years, I would think, oh, well, I've put in all of this effort.

are you being held back because you're a female?

But I will say on the flip side then, because I've been in the industry for, I guess, maybe aside when I was 21, so maybe 15, 16 years, the industry has gone through cycles.

So I feel like the very beginning it was like that and it was harder to prove yourself.