Gender and media

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Series: Gender
Length: 02:51

An Annenberg School for Communications 2006 study revealed that of 5,000 movie and TV speaking parts 71 percent were males and only 21 percent were females. According to the Geena David Institute on Gender in the Media that ratio hasn’t changed in the past 20 years. In today’s story, Y-Press 13-year-old journalist Shanze Tahir reports on the status of gender images. Read the full description.

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Shanze_tahir_small An Annenberg School for Communications 2006 study revealed that of 5,000 movie and TV speaking parts 71 percent were males and only 21 percent were females. According to the Geena David Institute on Gender in the Media that ratio hasn’t changed in the past 20 years. In today’s story, Y-Press 13-year-old journalist Shanze Tahir reports on the status of gender images.

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