In the past ten or fifteen years, things have been changing quite considerably. Men and woman seen working side by side, as equals, in the hospitals, schools, and police stations of television lands.
Statistics:
- During the 1990's, gender roles have have become increasingly equal and non-stereotyped on television.
Prime-Time T.V shows in 1992-93 showed that men took 61% of the leading speaking roles, with women only taking 39% of the speaking roles.
1995-1996 study showed that men took 63% of the speaking roles, with women taking the other 37% of those speaking roles.
A small number of 18% of women took major female character roles, with two-thirds of those stars in domestic comedies.
A 1995-96 study showed that 43% of major characters were females.
In 1992-93, a study showed that only 3% of women were represented as Housewives, a major decrease from the 70's, with an additional 8% of women presented as homemakers.
Overall. the 1992-1993 study found that "the woman on prime time TV in the early 1990as was young, single, independent, and free from family and work place pressure."
(Elasmer, Hasegawa and brain)
Gender in contemporary movies:
Film in the past had tended to give men all the primary clever and resourceful roles, which made them the lead characters, whilst women usually got to be the love interests and helpers.
"Film... often and anxiously envision women stereotypically as 'good' mothers or 'bad' hysterical careerists[in the past, and today every Hollywood women is someone elses other]"
"Nobody every called Indiana Jones a 'bimbo' just because Harrison Ford took his shirt off, or because he sometimes used his seductive looks and charm to get what he wanted"
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