Raising strong, confident girls: Battle mixed messages, stereotypes with empowerment

MSNBC
Gina Shaw, WEBMD
April 3, 2003

Adolescent girls are receiving contradictory messages at school and play. Fern Marx, senior research scientist at the Center for Research on Women states: “On television, as well as in movies and in music, you have the strong girl and the girl as object, sometimes in the same breath. And what has happened over time is that these messages are extending to even younger girls—there are clothes that make them sexual objects in grade school now.”