Essay on Women

Throughout today’s society, media contributes to almost everyone’s daily life. From informative news channels to comical television shows, media proves to be effective in advertisement, releasing messages and informing the audience. Although media proves to be wildly effective in advertising, releasing messages and informing the audience, periodically destructive and misleading messages are provided to the audience and directly influencing women. Cultural critics widely agree that media tends to negatively influence women and all the critics point to research which supports the belief that women are portrayed as subordinate to men, having no

     Throughout United States history oppression of people has always been prominent, whether through African American’s and segregation or Asian American’s during the Vietnam War. What is often ignored is our history of the oppression of women. No matter what time in history, there is always a case to be found of the discrimination over gender. Many people know of how African American’s came into freedom and the long perilous road it took, but few know the struggles, changes and hardships that women have perceived to get where they are today. As the civil war halted and industrialization and urbanization came into play, the role of women changed dramatically and their status

Throughout the history of society, women and men both have faced the constricting roles forced upon them, from a young age; each gender is given specific social and cultural roles to play out throughout their lives. Little girls are given dolls and kitchen toys, little boys are given dinosaurs and power tool toys, if one was to step out of this specified role, social conflict would ensue. Contrast to popular belief, sex is a biological construct, and gender is a social construct specifying the roles men and women are to follow to be accepted into society as “normal”. The effects of gender roles have had on women have proved harmful over the decades. Although the woman’s involvement in society has improved throughout the decades,

However, it can be observed and said that they have always lived up to the image of “housewife” material or as a constant collaborator of a male role, instead of being the main character. According to Elasmar, M., Hasegawa, K., & Brain, M, on their essay the portrayal of women in the US prime television, “TV has portrayed females in many ways, studies have shown that women have been underrepresented and stereotyped in TV programs.” Women have been living under that invisible stereotype that has cornered them and does not allow them to grow professionally or socially. TV has been the master-mind behind a stereotype that has left women without the chance of demanding equality or credibility on shows, a stereotype that will always be mentioned and enforce if TV shows do not start producing real-world programs based on true stories or true qualities of

From the onset, Barker contends that commercial television networks hire cheap and unintelligent women for their looks, adopting a ridiculing tone when he addresses the women whom he believes are unfit for the field of journalism. Barker begins his piece by listing the appearance-based criteria that the “talentless, pert-breasted

The media portrays successful women characters often as the evil boss who is unfulfilled in their social life and the movie plot is dedicated to scrutinizing their choices. The misrepresentations of the physical qualities of women in the media support the argument that the media portrays women inaccurately. Martha Lauzen talks about how most characters on television are in their 20’s or 30’s when in reality most women are older.

The main problem when it comes to gender neutrality is that, “the media creates and maintains gender stereotypes, by displaying men and women in stereotypical gender roles and by promoting characters or media personalities that represent certain gender norms to new generations of viewers” (Issit). This is a negative cycle, that continually makes it more and more difficult for women to find equality on screen. In a study conducted by sociologist Stacy L. Smith, it was found that on primetime television, women were employed for 44.3% of the total roles while men possessed the other 54.5%. Only 38.9% of speaking roles on television were women as well (Bahadur). Off camera, women typically possess even fewer roles making up only 7% of media writers, 13% of directors and 20% of media producers (Issit).

During the 18th and 19th century, patriarchy has been responsible for designing women’s role in society. Throughout history, men have been deemed as superior while women have been regarded as inferior. Society has this ideology that women are the sole laborers of a household; they were not granted the same privileges as men. In addition, women have been negatively affected by stereotyping. Women have been portrayed on television as being submissive to men. The depiction of women on television portrays the implications of a societal view of women. From a man's perspective, an ideal woman is a housewife who does all the household duties herself. However, over the years, studies have shown that gender roles have slowly advanced. Women began

Annette Bair and Marilyn Friedman have opposing views on whether women have distinct moral perspectives. Like Friedman, I believe that women have no different moral perspectives than men. Some people, like Bair, think that women base their moral perspectives on merely trust and love and men base theirs on justice. Friedman points out that care and justice coincide . People use justice to decide what is appropriate in caring relationships and care is brought into account when determining what is just. Since these two moral perspectives correspond, gender does not distinguish different moral perspectives.

Throughout history and today, we women are constant victims of stereotyping from our society. Certain “rules” have to be followed and certain “ideal” women images have to be kept. We are raised in a way to fill certain position where the society wants us to be and as a result, the opportunities are always limited for us and ideas of our importance in the society are diminishing. Even though women gained some independence, where women can work and take various position in society, the society’s idea of typical role of women never seem to change.

The power point inflicted many emotions. As a woman living in a society where The thoughts of sexist men are muted and The voices of strong, independent women are encouraged at a high pitch, volume, Completely floored by the overt disrespect and harsh words of the men of yesterday. I said yesterday because this open disdain for women is not as common as it once was. Not that the views and ideology of women being inferior to men are non-existent more like the forums are less accessible. After the shock wore off, i began to feel sadness for the women that came before me. the women that lived the lives told to them without the ability to manifest their own destiny. The women that were non-existent until they were chosen by a man. Women who's worth was measured by their ability to procreate rather than any other attribute within them. That sadness rushed through me and settled finally in a spirit filled with pride. For the freedoms I have now been available merely because of their sacrifice

Studies regarding gender roles in media show that the feminine essence tends to be depicted as inferior, with women often being marginalized, disempowered and humiliated through a status that is based on their youth and looks; whilst men tend to be portrayed as superior with higher and longer lasting careers

Skinny, blond, ditzy, annoying, un-educated, easy, and considered a typical women. If you’re a women and you hear these words, does it make you think of who you are, or your mother or sisters? I think not…but I do think about the people I see on television and in magazines or in movies. What I want to know is who is writing the scripts for some of the television shows that I watch. I would like to hope that it’s not women putting these stereotypes on their fellow “sisters”.

Woman’s studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, gender and feminism; exploring our gender existence, how we perform femininity and masculinity and how this interacts with other aspects of our identities, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and sexuality. Women’s studies emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s as a concerned women being misrepresentation and trivialization in the higher education curriculum and as well as being excluded from many positions of power authority as colleges faculty and administrators. An example from the “ Women’s Voices /Feminist Vision” book written by Susan M.Shaw Janet lee was “the entire course in English or American literature to include not one

Television has been around for years, however the role of the news anchor was always seen as the mans, because they were seen as more efficient. “A person who writes news stories … or broadcasts them on radio or television”(Cambridge Dictionary). News anchors purpose is to deliver news on a programme. The news anchor plays a very important role by informing as well as entertaining the audience, while being a reputable and respectable journalist, which is stated by the Cambridge dictionary. However, within the work place this doesn’t appear to be the case, while men are credited for being journalist, women credited for their appearance and having the power to manoeuvre up to greater industries, using these assets. Furthermore, to emphasises