Female reporters red-card groping

– Female Brazilian sports journalists fed up with being groped, insulted and kissed on the job are showing sexual harassment the red card.

An online campaign under the hashtag #DeixaElaTrabalhar, or #LetHerWork, is making waves by demanding the male-dominated sports world treat female reporters with respect. Several women journalists appear in a campaign video that opens with footage of Bruna Dealtry, from Esporte Interativo, recoiling from a shirt-

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less football supporter when he suddenly kisses her face as she reports from a busy fan zone.

“It also happened to me,” a reporter says. “We just want to work in peace,” another says in the clip, viewed on Twitter more than 730 000 times.

The campaign, which dovetails with the global #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, was launched on Sunday by a group of journalists and other media professionals. Dozens of Brazilian football clubs gave their support. “The woman’s place is where she wants it to be – in the stadium, the office, the street, here or there,” Belo Horizonte football club Cruzeiro tweeted. Rio de Janeiro club Vasco da Gama tweeted: “Our complete support. We’re together on this!”

Dealtry posted the kiss clip on Facebook, adding: “A kiss on the mouth, without my permission, while doing my job. Today I felt the sense of powerlessness many women feel in stadiums, metros or walking on streets.” –