Working Towards Gender Equality

While i was on the website WAM! I found an article titled "Still Far from Gender Equity".  This article got me to start thinking about when and how women's portrayal in the media will change.   The article references statistics on how many woman are major participants in the creating of the media we see.  It was eye opening to see that only half or less percent of jobs in the media were women.  

I think that the statistics found in this article gives evidence to why women are often objectified through media.  Since there are more men in the media industry they have the say in what the audience sees.  So when a scene in a movie or an advertisement is objectifying a woman few woman have the power to eliminate the objectification.  

If more women enter jobs involving media women will slowly stopped being objectified and will start to be shown equal to their male counterparts on camera.  Since many people of today's society get there ideas from media this change to equality among genders on camera will be replicated in life as well.  Instead of rationalizing their ideas and action toward woman by what they see in the media they will be pushed to change their actions toward equality.  Although a lot of time is needed in order for gender equity to be accomplished, I believe the people who produce movies, t.v. shows, books etc. and the way they portray the women have a major role in how society outside of media acts towards women.  

Comments

[Nicole H.]

You know, i think that it's weird how some of the feminist sites only focus on the negative side of things for women. I like what you said but I also think that we should pay a little bit more attention to the media that does not show women being objectified.

[dani k]

i think that this is totally true we do objectify girls and women in the media. but i don't think its a one way street in the least i also think that men get objectified by the media as well, maybe not as much as women but they definitely do. and yeah i agree with Nicole , so often we focus on the negative side of women in the media we don't get to see the good, which is really sad because its counterproductive to the femminist movement.

[Megan W]

I agree with what both Dani and Nicole said, but i also agree with Camille when she mentioned how there is more gender equality in the media, then what both of you mentioned about men and women getting pbjectified, could go down.

[Evan L]

When you said that, "Since there are more men in the media industry they have the say in what the audience sees. So when a scene in a movie or an advertisement is objectifying a woman few woman have the power to eliminate the objectification" it was completely spot on Camille. I agree that men have a easier time in the media because we are the ones(mostly) controlling what's going on in the commercials and ad's. This was also an interesting perspective on how, if more women were able to control what happens in the media, the objectification would slightly diminish.

[Maryann Wadde]

I'm going to have to disagree with Nicole. I don't think that focusing on the positivity of portrayal of women int eh media is going to help anything. I think that the whole point of these feminist blogging sights is to empower women and make them want to do more to get perfection. if they admit that there are rare occurences where women are not discriminated against, they're giving into the argument that women should be happy with where they are in society.