Media Savvy Girls

[...] which parents can help their children moving away from internalizing dangerous and limiting gender stereotypes. Read on!) Gender stereotypes hurt both men and women. Boys might curb their emotions and [...]

[...] Questioning the origin of gender stereotypes is a complex and global issue, as multifaceted and layered as the cultures from which these [...]

[...] with the contrasting images of boys playing outdoor, sport and rough: they all perpetrate gender stereotypes and force-feed these notions to us and to our children. Many people confound gender [...]

[...] Image courtesy of Raymon Poort The most interesting and lively conversations I had about gender stereotypes and gender differences are definetly the ones with men and women whose way of thinking was [...]

[...] media) has risen sharply over the last decade. The Impact of Puberty: Body Image and Gender Roles No discussion of tweens could be complete without examining the role of puberty; the rapid [...]

[...] -feed these notions to us and to our children. Many people confound gender stereotypes with gender roles, which are another notion altogether. While there are behaviours inherent to women and to men ( [...]

[...] practiced agriculture in the past. Ester Boserup, from whom this theory originated, found that gender roles are strongly correlated to plough use. Unlike shifting cultivation, which relied largely on [...]

[...] rigidly these stereotypes would be endorsed). Girls living in families with a more flexible gender roles orientation would not only express a less stereotypical femininity, but would interpret and [...]

[...] to look up to, so their words and experiences can really sparkle a lively debate around gender equality not only in the media, but backstage, during the planning and production of a media product. [...]

[...] present culture produces, pushes and encompasses simultaneously opposite effects — degrees of gender equality with growing segregation of the sexes, resulting in gender trouble on the one hand and [...]

[...] include their voices too. As the recent UN “He4She” campaign so aptly put it, “Gender equality is not only a women’s issue, it is a human rights issue.” The format of the [...]

[...] men who care about their family, will be prepared to listen to logical arguments about gender equality and equal opportunities, but more importantly they may be interested in their children [...]

[...] it is in the UK), the rates of issues supposedly tied to early sexualisation—such as teenage pregnancy—remain relatively low (as do abortion rates, despite Canada’s notable lack of [...]

[...] exposure to sexualised media (such as the idea that it necessarily leads to higher rates of teenage pregnancy and abortion) and introduced the concept of agency; namely, the deeper debate between [...]

[...] and agency? In short, are we creating something revolutionary—acceptance of the sexual agency of young women —or are we setting girls up to be passive targets of exploitation, while [...]

[...] cultures, the display of a certain kind of sexual knowledge, sexual practice and sexual agency has become normative – indeed, a ‘technology of sexiness’ has replaced ‘ [...]

What will happen if I start to ask women and girls around the world to answer 3 simple questions? This is the first short film produced from a selecti [...]

[...] project, a revolutionary new initiative launched by Media Savvy Girls. This worldwide video project has gotten underway by asking women from many diverse backgrounds to share—in 45 [...]

[...] feminist media activist Jamia Wilson about how the drive for perfection affects young women today. Following the interview, President Spar shared her thoughts on the direction of feminism [...]

[...] and isolation. Prof. Rosalind Gill – a feminist and cultural theorist – suggests that “for young women today in post-feminist cultures, the display of a certain kind of sexual knowledge, sexual [...]

[...] negative effects of these programs.” Tips for Parents: How to Moderate the Impact of Tween Marketing Marketing is an inevitable part of the world most of us live in, so parents cannot hope to [...]

[...] . This creates a deep need in tweens to understand themselves as gendered persons, and tween marketing capitalizes on this by offering strongly gendered media that plays into tweens’ heightened [...]