Continuing my research on representation media I have found that there is a gender equality issue in relation to media as a profession as well as to media content. Regarding media as a profession, women are under-represented in media ownership, information production, and decision-making positions. Gender inequalities are even more blatant in media content: women are under-represented from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective.
Media often times will use women's bodies and exploit them for views. Content about women is largely comprised of subjects concerned with entertainment, tabloids, and sexuality. Women are being objectified every day without there any visible efforts to reverse it. Such content is sometimes dressed up and marketed as emancipatory for women, though instead they merely repeat the problematic portrayals seen in the past. For example, how the media portrays women as victims to then introduce a male main character as the hero.
This same sexist representation repeats itself with every news article, despite repeated criticisms and debate. Hopefully in the future women will be represented equally in all productions of media.
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