To begin with, women all around the world are now actively participating in sports, politics and almost every other field there is, and this participation is portrayed through media by real female athletes competing in sporting events, olimpusics and in fictional stories. This raises an interesting point because it shows the difference of reality and continued perception of females. By reporting the activities, progress and achievements of females in different fields serves not only as a manifestation of journalism which is quite simply to let the public know of the unlimited opportunities avaliable. It is also a constant reminder in the face of the society that women have come thus far and are doing what decades ago would have been thought
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Malala mainly known for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people too can contribute to improving their own situations, being an example herself prior to her being in most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement and only spread due to the media. To showcase her, Malala was even named one of TIME magazine's most influential people in 2013, to enourage and remind women and girls to push even further. It is also proof to those who still doubt that women can and do excel in their chosen fields of entry and that they are equal to men and even exceed them in their common endeavors. This enables the cycle of role models and hopeful future leaders and contributors to perpetuate and expand into new grounds for …show more content…
Now a days women are usually fed with the idea of reconstructing their body figure to to fit the criteria of a Barbie doll image which is being skinny, tall, busty, with perfect hair and being completely flawless. Media promotes this by selling and advertising diet pills, photo-shopping imperfections, masking natural beauty and by excluding curvy women from major areas of media such as fashion shows, news readers, and TV show hosts. This causes other women with different sizes to have low self-esteem, lack self-confidence, and be more prone to adapting eating disorders and become anorexic. Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average American woman but today weighs 23% less (Maine, 1999). Statistics show that 1 in 200 American women suffers from anorexia, 2 to 3 in 100 American women suffers from bulimia, anorexia is the 3rd most common chronic illness among adolescents, 95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25, 50% of girls between the ages of 11 and 13 see themselves as overweight, 80% of 13-year-olds have attempted to lose weight and eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness (Eating Disorder Statistics, 2006). The effects are also financial as Americans annually spend $40
Malala mainly known for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people too can contribute to improving their own situations, being an example herself prior to her being in most dangerous circumstances. Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading spokesperson for girls' rights to education. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement and only spread due to the media. To showcase her, Malala was even named one of TIME magazine's most influential people in 2013, to enourage and remind women and girls to push even further. It is also proof to those who still doubt that women can and do excel in their chosen fields of entry and that they are equal to men and even exceed them in their common endeavors. This enables the cycle of role models and hopeful future leaders and contributors to perpetuate and expand into new grounds for …show more content…
Now a days women are usually fed with the idea of reconstructing their body figure to to fit the criteria of a Barbie doll image which is being skinny, tall, busty, with perfect hair and being completely flawless. Media promotes this by selling and advertising diet pills, photo-shopping imperfections, masking natural beauty and by excluding curvy women from major areas of media such as fashion shows, news readers, and TV show hosts. This causes other women with different sizes to have low self-esteem, lack self-confidence, and be more prone to adapting eating disorders and become anorexic. Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average American woman but today weighs 23% less (Maine, 1999). Statistics show that 1 in 200 American women suffers from anorexia, 2 to 3 in 100 American women suffers from bulimia, anorexia is the 3rd most common chronic illness among adolescents, 95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25, 50% of girls between the ages of 11 and 13 see themselves as overweight, 80% of 13-year-olds have attempted to lose weight and eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness (Eating Disorder Statistics, 2006). The effects are also financial as Americans annually spend $40