Where Did All The Female Sports Personalities Go?

For those of you who didn’t know, every year the BBC runs a competition called the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. It started out in 1954 and has seen winners from a wide variety of sports. On the whole, men dominate this award ceremony, but in general the shortlist includes a good proportion of Britain’s best female sports stars. This week saw the unveiling of the whittled down shortlist of the ten candidates for this prestigious and well-promoted televsion event for 2011. It seemed odd immediately that all ten of the challengers this year are men. And given some of the achievements of the ladies this year, it begs the question: where did all the female sports personalities go?