Gender Stereotypes In The Media Analysis

Julia T. Wood’s “Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on Views of Gender” focuses on a wide aspect of how society has made gendered stereotypes and how the media goes about portraying them; these portrayals are negative and can lead to toxicity in the real lives of men and women. Danya Espinosa has written an article called, “Gender Roles in the Media and Debunking Society’s Stereotypes”. While the idea is mutual to Woods’, Espinosa writes about gender stereotypes in the media, but focuses on how they’re put into television shows to enhance a character; by doing this the viewer only sees it as comical and the idea of it internalizes and comes off as normal. Espinosa has a simplified argument that exemplifies one aspect of something that is …show more content…
Woods and Espinosa both were looking at how the media has created such stereotypes for the genders and how they go about expressing them through television; the main difference being that Woods looked at many aspects, and Espinosa kept her focus on one. Woods article looked at different mediums (I.e. magazines, newspapers, television) and went towards domestic violence and rape culture in the real world. While Espinosa stuck with the media and television and how it has psychological impacts on mental health and development. Both of the executing strategies were similar; they both began with some background information and begin to explain what the stereotypes are and how differently men and women are portrayed in television. Then, they both end their articles with their outside examples (i.e. Wood’s real world violence and Espinosa’s Glee effect psychologically) which are strong and logical closing points for both articles, seeing as those points were what they were leading up …show more content…
For starters, they both decided to look at the media and how it primarily uses television and its commercials to get the stereotypes instilled into our minds in hopes of normalizing them. They also had overlapping stereotypes, such as men and dominance and women and dependency. Both authors also had strong television examples with Espinosa using Glee, and Woods mainly looking at Claire Huxtable (The Cosby Show). Now onto the differences; the biggest difference between the two are content. In Woods’ article she looks at stereotypes, representation, and their application to the real world. She also looks at magazines and newspapers belong side the primary example of television to further her validity of research. Woods’ article can also be found in a journal derived around gender roles and stereotypes shown in the media. While Espinosa took another approach her article is on stereotypes and the media but she is looking at how it affects an individual psychologically and biologically. She also only decides to focus on one show instead of gathering a few examples. Although their topics are similar, their approaches are different and content not the same