How Women Are Portrayed In Today's Media

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Running head: How women are being portrayed in media 1
How women are being portrayed in media Mariyona Anderson University of Southern Mississippi
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Abstract
In today’s society when you turn on your television you are mostly met with advertisement, movies, television shows, and the news. In each thing, you see on the television makes a huge impact on your life without you even realizing. What you see has an impact on the types of people that belong to a certain stereotype or identity. Media plays and have played a major part in how we live, how we think, and how we communicate with each other. When people both men and women see each other on television they expect a certain role or responsibility to be met by each sex. Women for example are expected to be mothers, house keepers and the backbone of every family. It has been seen that way for centuries and centuries. After doing extensive research I have come up with percentages and facts of how women are portrayed in today’s media. Women in prime-time television had very small roles and were not seen as an equal compared to men. They were playing mothers, wives, girlfriends and if they were lucky they were seen as a nurse or a desk clerk.
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How women are being portrayed in media
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Also in other films if women have a major role they are the mistress or the wife of the male that is the main leading role. Mostly in Hollywood films the women are seen half naked or in a sex scene. In Hollywood films if a woman is seen as being successful and has a good paying job she is still in a depressed sense trying to seek male attention. In the film, she is desperately having trouble trying to find a husband because she is seen as too dominant. Television show also play a major part in what we

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