“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”

— Margaret Hughes

On the reaction of male journalists to a female reporting cricket. Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/feb/09/guardianobituaries.cricket

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