{"id":26,"date":"2008-02-13T19:59:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T02:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-02-13T19:59:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T02:59:02","slug":"genna-davis-on-women-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/genna-davis-on-women-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Genna Davis on women on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/davis_prez.jpg\" title=\"davis_prez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/davis_prez.jpg\" alt=\"davis_prez.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"243\" width=\"165\" \/><\/a>Genna Davis, the fictional first woman president of the US, is mad and she&#8217;s not going to take it any more. To the point, she&#8217;s upset about the portrayal of women on TV. Research conducted by Dr. Stacy Smith of USC\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication, on behalf of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, found that the ratio of male to female characters in films (G, PG, PG-13, and R) is 2.71 to one. In addition&#8211;even in G-rated films&#8211;female characters were often hypersexualized and shown with unrealistic bodies in alluring apparel. Animated female characters were even more likely to demonstrate these attributes than live-action characters.<\/p>\n<p>Content analysis studies such as this one are often the starting point for further research intended to explore the link between media and public health issues such as low self-esteem and distorted body image.\u00a0  While the existence of unrealistic media portrayals of gender, race, age, etc. are not sufficient for cause-and-effect hypotheses, recognition that the media fun-house mirror provides a distorted view of reality is an important first step.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegeenadavisinstitute.org\/\">Geena Davis Institute website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genna Davis, the fictional first woman president of the US, is mad and she&#8217;s not going to take it any more. To the point, she&#8217;s upset about the portrayal of women on TV. Research conducted by Dr. Stacy Smith of USC\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication, on behalf of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/genna-davis-on-women-on-tv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genna Davis on women on TV&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-effects","category-research","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}