How women are represented in the Media/Television?
When we searched ‘List
of British TV programmes’ into the Google Search Engine, we were struck by the
list of the results where the cast were extremely male dominated with only a
scarce amount of women, for example, Sherlock Holmes, Top Gear, Black Adder,
Dad’s Army and Only Fools and Horses.
In headlines recently,
there has been lots of commotion because of the lack of women portrayed in the
comedy game shows such as Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You and Would I
lie to you, which is surprising as a lot of upcoming comedians are women.
Although there is a lot
of negatives to the British Television industry about feminism, in many
programmes woman are represented in a very clever and humorous ways, compared
to American Television they are portrayed as stupid and inferior.
In 2018, women have
compromised 42% of all speaking characters on Television and 39% of
protagonists. Though 99% of women have experienced sexism during their path to
stardom, and that they had been treated incredibly different from male
co-stars.
The portrayal of both
men and female in British Television Dramas remain polarised, showing the
social dominant value patriarchy. Women are always related to words such as
emotional, prudent, gentle, sensitive, etc.; men are usually pictured as,
impulsive, ruthless, independent, aggressive etc.
Female character
professional lives are ignored, and they are shown as housewives who takes care
of children and family chores every day, but not ambitious at all in building a
career. Even if women do work they are often shown on TV in traditional
feminine jobs such as teachers, secretaries and nurses, which all professions
require patience and carefulness.
There had been a demand
for female women featuring in popular television such as the new upcoming film
James bond for the protagonist to be a woman which has been suggested by the
mayor of London. Khan said, ‘It was perhaps time to update the franchise to
reflect the modern world’. Recently, women have won the battle for securing the
new Doctor Who to also be a woman for the new series later this year.
Could this be a new era
for women?
By Brianna Freire and
Dulcie Johnson
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