Gender Stereotypes In Miss Representation

I chose the film Miss Representation and took a deeper look into the topic of women being presented incorrectly to the world in many different ways. In this film there are four main ideas that are touched upon including the affect of media 's portrayal of women on the younger generation, on men, the problems with gender bias for news anchors, and the portrayal of women 's leaderships positions. They show much evidence to back up these main ideas that are presented. As well as give the viewers much to think about.
There are many statistics and facts used to put emphasis on the four main ideas that the documentary want the public to look at. For example the affect on men or boys, through media and advertising, is the idea that males should be …show more content…
This plays a role with one of the topics we discussed in class, gender norms and roles in society. If we think about it, hundreds of years ago it would be a horrible mistake to let a woman play a role in theatre (considering movies didn 't exist) and even as time went by women didn 't get to be independent main characters. It took forever to get them into such positions because our norms said that women belonged in the kitchen, or with kids, or cleaning the house, and serving the men. That 's just how it was and no one really questioned how wrong these norms were, not out loud of course. Then as time continued to prove we could 'change ' we still didn 't give women as much of a choice as we did the men. Women got to go to school and get jobs though they didn 't get much for options. You could be a teacher for the children, but not necessarily could you as easily be a professor. You could be an assistant at a big company and take phone calls or go fetch coffee, but again you couldn 't as easily be one of the lawyers or powerful corporate men. That 's just how it was, women have and still struggle to get into powerful jobs, and the documentary does well to show this