Um, no. I get some version of the comment pasted below all the time. Oliver is responding to my post about how “Adventures of Tintin” featured almost no female characters, typical of most animated movies made for kids. From Oliver: You keep focusing on how sexist American and Hollywood still are as you focus solely [...]
Archive for the ‘Statistics’ Category
But half of law school, med school, art school are girls! Aren’t boys the ones who need more support?
Posted in Statistics on March 20, 2012 | 14 Comments »
Women and the leadership gap: Post-feminism is dead
Posted in Statistics on March 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake, wrote on the lack of women in leadership positions on The Daily Beast. The post begins with this question: It’s been almost a half-century since the modern women’s movement began. So why aren’t more women in positions of power? Bennetts begins with the contraceptions hearings in congress where [...]
Forgiveness, storytelling, and how to change the world
Posted in Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, Statistics, tagged Forgiveness, Fred Luskin on February 7, 2012 | 12 Comments »
A few years ago, I took a class on forgiveness at Stanford. I was intrigued by the incredibly practical way the professor, Fred Luskin, described his course: Forgiveness is a skill that can be learned, like any other skill such as riding a bike or writing a five paragraph essay. Professor Luskin taught our class [...]
Stats from Miss Representation
Posted in Media, Movies, Statistics, tagged Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Miss Representation on October 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Miss Representation– a documentary about how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America– aired on OWN last week. TV viewers learned the following stats, listed below. Makes you think twice about taking your kid to a movie. Only 16% of protagonists in film [...]
Sexism 101
Posted in Education, Statistics, tagged Duke University, frat party on September 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the New York Times, reporter Lisa Belkin writes about sexism at Duke University: AT Duke University last fall, members of the Sigma Nu fraternity e-mailed 300 of their female classmates about an off-campus Halloween party. “Hey Ladies,” the invitation leered, complete with a misspelling, “Whether your dressing up as a slutty nurse, a slutty doctor, a [...]
Did Reality TV save Taylor Armstrong?
Posted in Health, Marriage & family, Statistics, Television programs, tagged Real Housewives of Berverly Hills, Reality TV, Russell Armstrong, Taylor Armstrong on August 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
After Russell Armstrong, estranged husband of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Taylor Armstrong, committed suicide this week, the internet was ablaze, pointing the finger at Reality TV, wanting to know: Did it kill Russell Armstrong? Today on Salon.com TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz writes: It’s time to get real about reality TV. As your [...]
Peggy Orenstein counts girls
Posted in Media, Statistics, tagged Dory. Jesse in Toy Story, gender gap in kids movies, Peggy Orenstein, Pixar on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Peggy Orenstein blogged about the typical response she gets when she points out kids’ movies are mostly all about boys. People argue there’s gender equality, pointing out token ‘strong girls:’ what about Jesse in Toy Story? Dory in Finding Nemo? That girl chef in Ratatouille? Here’s the problem: The girl is not the star of [...]
New study finds ‘huge gender imbalance’ in kidlit
Posted in Books, Media, Statistics on May 14, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The Guardian reports on a new, extensive study on gender in children’s books by Florida State University Professor Janice McCabe that found male characters far outnumber girl characters. This lack results in “a symbolic annihilation of women and girls” in the real world. The gender disparity sends the message that “women and girls occupy a [...]
More invisble women
Posted in Media, Movies, Statistics, tagged statistics on women, women in film, women in the news, women inmedia on January 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Women’s Media Center just posted a great, short video on YouTube called “WMC at Sundance Film festival 2011″ that gets across how invisible women and women’s stories are in the media. See the video here As a potential mirror of our dreams and our realities, the media is seriously warped. Women are 53% of our [...]
Academy unveils new Oscar statuette
Posted in Marriage & family, Media, Movies, Sexuality, Statistics, tagged Academy Awards, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Natalie Portman, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillipe, Tom Cruise on January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today, just after announcing the nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards, Academy president Tom Sherak said that this year’s Oscars will feature a brand new statuette. Sherak said, “Our hope is that the new model will lift the Oscar curse once and for all.” The Oscar curse– the phenomenon that after actresses get the award, [...]
