News journalism is a demanding field for both women and men, so why is it when you turn on your daily news you're less likely to see a women representation? (Women Not Portrayed Equally By News Media, Extensive Study Shows) “Research in 114 countries over 20 years reveals ongoing severe disparity between representation of women and men in news media”. …show more content…
Television shows are not showing the different sides of women. They are showing women through a specific way that they live. This inequality goes back to the 1950’s and 1960’s. [Larry Kelley’s The Remaking Of The Media Women] states that “ Female tv characters of the 1950’s and 1960’s were almost all homemakers. Lucy Ricardo of I Love Lucy and Laura Spetne of The Dick Van Dyke show have made brief visits to the paid work world but they always returned to their rightful place at …show more content…
Tv male roles such as Bill Cosby of The Cosby Show would be seen frequently working in his home office. Clair Huxtable played Bill cosby’s wife and she would be would mostly at home even though she had a demanding job outside of the home.(Larry Kelley 118)
Women roles on television has been seen as “weak” and not strong enough to stand up for themselves. Women in television are mostly victimized. (Women Not Portrayed Equally By News Media Extensive Study Shows) “Women remain more than twice as likely as men to be portrayed as victims”. Television women characters are mostly all easy targets for perpetrators.
The media has shown that the inequality for women prior to the men are