Female Sterotypes on TV

"Although according to recent statistics, in the past decades all over the western world, women have improved their status in society, television has still not been capable of fully accepting this evolution. It is as if women were the victims of a media vicious circle, portrayed and perceived as if having a weaker social status. Their opinions are therefore less important than those of men, and consequently they continue to be less represented. Generally speaking women are usually invisible on TV. In 2000, the Global Media Monitoring Project, sponsored by the United Nations to study the portrayal of women in the media at a global level, proved that only 18% of players present in the news sector were women, and furthermore that when women are present in the world of TV they continue to be the victims of a so-called “tyranny of beauty”, according to which their bodies rather than their opinions are represented. This is confirmed by the fact that politically committed women are given far less time than their male colleagues in the news sector, while in the entertainment sector one observes a normalisation of both pornography and violence against women." (thanks Nikki)