Gender Stereotypes In Hollywood

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Hello my name is Joanna Raphael and my question is how do prejudices affect the entertainment industry. I will be looking at this topic from the gender perspective. What first peaked my interest in this topic was the knowledge of women being placed on different pedestals than men. Dee Meehan, a sociologist, theorized over how woman in media are typically only seen as three things, a house wife, Mother, and a sexdx object. I then wanted to further my research, and really dig deep into the inequality that both men and women face within society, specifically within the entertainment industry. Women in hollywood have been speaking out about the unfairness within the entertainment industry for years now, but due to social media within this …show more content…
India’s results stood out. Women are overall underrepresented in this industry off and on screen. As you can see in the first graph, casts are hardly ever balanced and there are less woman doing bigger roles. Timesofindia, an indian newsource, discusses how when women receive roles they often fall into awful gender stereotypes. These stereotypes can follow audiences into everyday life making it a societal norm. There is also under representation behind the camera as shown in the second graph. Only 1 in 10 directors are women. The gender ratio is completely imbalanced. This may discourage younger women from entering careers within the industry due to results like this. Latin America also faces similar issues concerning representation in television and movies. Women hardly have positions of higher power off screen, women journalists are usually tasked with covering stories on entertainment and lifestyle, rather than being editors or producers. This form of discrimination sets back many advancements Latin woman have made for equality, and will continue to interrupt and …show more content…
Argentina but also throughout the rest of the world. Recently, the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in a report entitled “Women, gender equality and sport” spoke of the constraints placed on women in sports. The report states that often women are held back by gender-based discrimination and placed involuntarily into sports that are either specifically designed for or targeted to women, like gymnastics and field hockey, sports which generally require significant financial means. So women then become excluded from sports viewed as traditionally masculine, like soccer. This discrimination also reduces women’s access to leadership and decision-making positions at all levels, from local to international. To have this being openly discussed and recognized by officials is a large advancement towards ending gender discrimination within sports