Representation of Gender in the Media
Representation of Gender in the Media Representation of Women It is believed that women are far less likely than men to be seen in the media . As subjects of stories, women only appear in 25% of television, radio, and print news. In a 2015 report, women made up only 19% of experts featured in news stories and 37% were reporters telling stories globally. The s exualisation of a woman's appearance is heavily unified in mass media. These platforms seem to sexualise women by portraying them in lack of clothing, or depict women as subordinate to men. From this, a women's self esteem, body image and emotional well-being may be negatively affected. Research s tudies also show that typical female roles fall into stereotypes of women and are often sexualised with minimal clothing and sexualised roles. An example of this is from a content analysis of video games that found that 41% of female characters in video games wore revealing c...