We listened to a podcast about women's involvement in the media in one of our lessons recently and the representation of them. I found out 78% of articles are mostly written by men and on Radio 1 in the morning 84% talk about men and what's happening in the media that concerns them. Women are still represented like they were back in the 1920's and onwards being a 'house wife' or dealing with pregnancy. You could also see this as men are supposedly dominant and this is why women are in some ways shy but perhaps in the long run more effective. Unfortunately they're aren't many female role models in the media many people haven't got someone to aspire to. 5000 women have dropped out of employment in the past two years. More jobs need to be offered to women such as sport journalists as it's less than 10% and 5% coverage of recording them.
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