Feminism help women get rid of stereotype and fight for equality to men. The stereotype and biases of women in different media exist for a long time. From 19 century, women were under the male gaze. Women in many paintings are naked. These paintings just show how men see women as their ideal image for their pleasure, which is unreal and humiliates women. For today, although the media is change, the image of women is still under men’s perspectives and judgment. The beauty of women is conformed to very narrow standards like tall and thin. The study found that 75 percent of all ads using females were for products found in the kitchen or bathroom, which means women are labeled as housewives. Moreover, women in backwaters are even hard to get in the chance to get an education. Fortunately, the development of media brings many advantages. Women who receive education become more confident and share their opinions online. They create themselves and define beauty by themselves. They dress the way they like instead of “to-be-looked-at” and throw away these “social tags” to become new-age women who make decisions by themselves.
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I agree that often people have a very narrow view of what women should be like. Oftentimes this view is also contradictory, with the expectation that women will be housewives with roles reserved to cooking and cleaning but are also objectified sexually and reduced to solely being looked at, as you mentioned. There is a long way to go for women to reach social equality where these assumptions no longer exist, and education is a great way to make progress. However, women don’t always have equal access to education, which shows that there is much more work to be done to create educational and economic equality for women.
I’d love to have seen you make a connection between equal access to education and media portrayals of women. There’s important work that education can do to make people aware of feminist approaches (and the misogyny too often perpetuating female stereotypes) across many different socioeconomic levels.
I totally agree that the education system can play a crucial role in the whole gender stereotypes issue that we currently face. History and modern comparisons can be completely analyzed from an educational perspective looking at how these stereotypes were first established and why they exist through maybe feminist approaches. The educational system can then maybe enforce this education to demolish these stereotypes at a very young age so that it can become a part of a unified identity for the educated generations. Access to quality education would be a very difficult obstacle considering financial constrains that come with obtaining a quality education.