The negatives protrayal of women I n media

  

The media’s portrayal of women specifically in magazines and music videos in regard to body image effects their own perception of themselves in society

 Sarah Elgohary

Hofstra University

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There have been many studies on the negative portrayals of women  the in media and the relationship between media and women’s body   image. People know that it is wrong to judge a book by its cover, but people always do it any way why is that?   There is a saying which I believe that “”says ““True beauty is only skin deep.” But if true beauty is only skin deep   was truly really the case, in our society. Then why is that an individual’s appearance is the first thing that people  in our society will judge about individuals when we first meet them without getting to know the personalities of individual   people. Society knows that the act of judging people on a basics of race, sexuality. gender, hobbies, and habitats is known as discrimination  and prejudice These guidelines,  rules expectations are based  on an individual’s gender, race,  social class sexuality they are put In place in our society  so people can be successful. 

The media in society today has portrayed the expectations of women with regard to body image, occupation, and gender roles; through the interpretation of music videos and magazines and television.  From the time we are in our mother’s womb, there is a set of many guidelines, rules expectations, images on how a person is supposed to look like, act, interact with other people that every individual  in society is trained to follow and obey. Throughout history women have not been treated as equals to men in society. Why is that? Women are just as capable of” maintaining their own homes, children as well as their own professional careers, as men in society.  At the same, time there are so many double standards that society has in place for women, compared to men just because of their gender

   

Women have a harder time having their own careers because they have to take care of their children.  Women who do work and have children often have dilemmas with what to do with their children when they are at work all day.   Women can hire baby sitters, nannies, or they can pay for day care to care of the children for the work day. Unfortunately some women cannot afford to pay for daycare for their children.  As a result many mothers must make a decision on whether or not they should stay home with their children or to work. It is s very hard decision to make because on one hand, a mother wants to be with her children.  On the other hand, Women need to work for money to pay bills, to pay for food, daycare, clothes and other essentials. Aside from the obvious biological factor of a woman’s birth to children men are perfectly capable of raising and nurturing their children.    

This study shows that In fact, in recent years more and more men are staying home to care for their children either because more men are unemployed or they have responsibility for the kids, while the wife or Mothers are working all day.   In addition men are allowed to have a two week paternity leave to spend time with their new baby and they still can go back to work without any consequences. While in contrast to men young women who take a maternity leave for twelve weeks might not have a job when they come back from maternity leave even though by law an employer is not allowed to fire a woman just for having a baby.  Women who have a baby and return to work have a stigma attached to them for having a baby because employers and coworker think that women cannot perform their job the way that they did before having the baby and sometimes women are fired from their job for taking extra time on materiality leave. Society has so many different double standards for men and women. For example if a father  stays home to take care of his children while the mother is out working , society will look down on men who stay home with the children because he is too nurturing and he is not considered manly enough. Also if society expects women not to get an education not a degree, not work and stay home taking care of the children and the house how Are they going to pay bills . Society needs to understand that  in order for women to raise their children and be good mothers all women need to have equal

Engeln-Maddox, R. (2005) The purpose of the study would be to analyze the relationship between body image and self-perception of women. the    hypothesis of the study is the college women’s processing of thin advertisements featuring images the study examines the relationship of how young women perceive advertisements and how they respond to them while having them still effect how they see themselves in society, even though they know it’s not a possible realty.  This study involves 202 undergraduate females; the research was conducted in two parts; in one part the participants wrote they talked about three advertisements taken from recent women’s magazines. In the second part, women completed a number of self-reported measurements focusing on body-image in addition to miscellaneous measures of themselves.  Rena used the scale from the 1984 study; 1 is the lowest rating of internalization and 5 is the highest rating. In regards to their five measures of internalization, 1 is Internalization of the thin ideal (SATAQ) and 5 is Body Mass Index .The results of this.study show making a negative outcome with regard to media advertisements and women, in comparison in response of women to media portrayal of themselves is significantly correlated with greater internalization of ideals and decreased satisfaction with women’s own appearance and perception of themselves.  

  Body image went from 17.0 to 49.0 which means that 23.25% of the participants fell into the underweight category and 72% fell in the normal weight category and the people from the age of 18.5 to 24.9 were in the 16th percentile of the BMI . It was said in the study that body mass is not significantly related to age, and body dissatisfaction and the overall satisfaction with appearance has a positive correlation which points greatly possibility of .001.  But I also found significance, especially since the rating on appearance evaluation has a -.33% which is a negative correlation that is statistically significant. 

IN more a Recent study, Inbal, Gurari, John. J Hetts, and Michel J Strube explored the relationship between advertisement of women In media and their attitudes of themselves “whether hidden self evaluation and clear self evaluations are differentially susceptible to influence, both were measured after exposure to images  of beauty in magazine advertisements or to advertisements containing no body images”( pg 1) In addition, the purpose of the study is to prove that the women in this study were not influenced by the idealistic images of beauty in the magazine advertisements. This is dispite the fact that being exposed to these advertisements images( as compared to control  advertisements made the participants decrease the amount of snack food they ate, while they awaited the completion of the study. The hypothesis of the study is that women may not give in to the portrayal in magazines but they do not correct or protect themselves against the awfully inappropriate Images and social comparison and other threats that the media gives  society of young women. .. In this study there were seventy two female participants from Washington University, who were undergraduates from the age of 18 to 22. The proedue of the study was that all the participants were seated in individual rooms at computers to complete primary tasks of the study. Then the participants worked independently instructions were given to them by a computer,  After they completed the task they left the room, Then there was an advertising exercise in Which the participants were presented 20 in magazine advertisements from popular magazines After each advertisement the participants were asked to identify the products and rate the level of agreement with four statements (liking of the advertisement, effectiveness of the advertisement,  probability of buying the product, and the uniqueness of the advertisement in order to maintain the cover. In addition, the participants saw 20 nonperson /non beauty products advertisements in the control Group Alternatively, the experimental group participants  had 14 to 20 products advertisements containing realistic standards of female beauty,  six of the advertisements did not show beauty products . After the advertisement rank test  there was a body image test. body image was examined by the subjects taking a short series of practice trials followed by ISEs   Each trial began with a 750 word ms presentation of asterisk in the center of the screen to help focus the participants attention . Next the participants were shown a prime number for  200 ms the prime participants were selected to be relevant to self evaluation ex word ME and I. The the participants viewed a blank computer screen for a 100 ms followed by evaluative trait in one of  three categories that appeared on the screen,  the categories were attractiveness verus ugliness and the wide range in between them from  pretty to gross. target traits were put in three categories pretty, cute. the participants   were told to evaluate whether a trait that followed a prime was positive or negative, participants  indicated the meaning of the evaluative trait by pressing z or “ I keys, labeled positive or negative.   Response latacy was measured and recorded The design for body image assessment was four prime categories   x 3 the traits categories. the participants completed 144 trials sepated 3 blocks 8 prime two per catergories  6 groups of targets

The results of the study  show that the women in this study were able to recognize the differences in response  to the media advertisement images This is a very important point.   

 IN A SIMILAR  STUDY Lorraine Willgosh  represent s historically and  social influences on how expectations occupation, and gender roles;  OF WOMEN through the interpretation of music videos and magazines and television.   HYPOTHESES From the time we are in our mother’s womb, there is a set of many guidelines,  rules expectations, images on how a person is supposed to look like, act, interact with other people  that every individual in society is trained to follow and obey. These guidelines, rules expectations are based  on an individual’s gender, race, social class sexuality they are put In place in our society so people can be successful

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As soon as they have   learn to walk children are socialized   differently based on their gender, boys learn to play with action figures like G i Joe army toys and play with Lego.  Society teaches boys to be strong, join the military, be good at math, build buildings be engineers, providers for women in society.  On the other hand , young girls are trained by society and their parents to play with dolls, make up, easy bake ovens and later on in school   girls learn that parents only want their sons to do better in math so as a result, girls attention in math decreases because they have internalized the message from their parents that girls are normally  not supposed to do better in math than boys in society. In addition society teaches young girls to be nurturing, to cook clean, do laundry so they can learn to be good mothers and take care of children, while the men are only the providers in society. 

These expectations of women are realistic/and unrealistic for many reasons. First  of all, it is very realistic for society to want and need caregivers, nannies, mothers to watch  over, nurture, care for and raise children in society that reason is realistic. There are no rules, laws in society that segregates  the care giving, and raising children is specifically the responsibility of only To 

The media in society today has portrayed the expectations of women with regard to body image, occupation, and gender roles; through the interpretation of music videos and magazines and television.  From the time we are in our mother’s womb, there is a set of many guidelines, rules expectations, images on how a person is supposed to look like, act, interact with other people that every individual  in society is trained to follow and obey. These guidelines, rules expectations are based on an individual’s gender, race, social class sexuality they are put In place in our society so people can be successful