The Female Gender Role in the Media An Analysis of Three Studies

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04/19/2008

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Table of Contents The Female Gender Role in the Media
An Analysis of Three Studies
 Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The first theme that all of the articles agreed on
  3. The second theme: The brief exposure to the media
  4. Conclusion
  5. Work cited

Abstract

In the United States of America, the media plays a gigantic role in the life of every man, woman, and child. No one can escape the media, for our life has become based around it. Televisions are being built into cars, the internet is full of advertisements, the radio is constantly blaring - there is no one person in the USA that is able to escape the media and its effects, that is, unless they choose to live literally under a rock. It has many positive and negative effects on our everyday life, as it influences all of our thoughts and actions. One giant thing that the media does is to help give all Americans "lenses of gender" (Lafky, 1996), which are imbedded in our "social, political, and economic institution and shape the way we interpret all media" (Belknap & Leonard, 1999, p. 473). Though these "lenses" develop because of many aspects of our life, the media is truly "one of the greater contributors to gender role socialization in American culture" (Lafky, 1996, p. 380). No matter which sort of media is studied, the same gendered themes seem to run rampantly through out. These gendered themes are becoming more regressive as the years pass, as the media turns back to the stereotypes that were prevalent long ago, such as the housewife and care taker. Instead of moving forward and accepting different types of more forward, independent women, the media continues to forcefully display them as the weaker sex.

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