Hollywood’s Steep Hills: Gender Inequality and ‘Miss Representation’

In this article, Suzanne Enzerink looks at gender inequality in mainstream films. A recent report from USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism found that only 16.83 percent of films had a cast where women and men had an equal amount of speaking roles, and that women over 40 are “increasingly marginalized”, and more.

Enzerink also looks at the film Miss Representation, a documentary film that focuses on how women and girls are portrayed in the media more for their bodies, not their brains. She also cites Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women, who was featured in the film, and talked about how the internalization of these images can affect women.

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