Representation of Gender in the Media homework: Week 3

Read this (http://www.bustle.com/articles/143690-female-oscar-winners-are-more-likely-to-be-wives-than-anything-else-the-discovery-is) article, which discusses female Oscar-winners - Summarise the key arguments made in this article into 5 bullet points.

• 16% of women who have won 'Best Actress' over the past 88 years of Academy Awards have done so for playing the role of a wife. In the nominees for 2016 alone, 2 out of the 5 women nominated played the role of wife in their films.
• In contrast, only 2% of men have won for playing husbands.
• The fact is, films are often regarded and as idealized version of reality and so often present ideas of the 'ideal' wife/husband in order to make us realise that we are not necessarily the people we see represented on-screen.
• The numbers also indicate how men and women are allowed to represent themselves on-screen. Six 'Best Actress' Oscars have been awarded to women playing sex workers, while the number of male remains at 0.
• "The roles recognized by awards shows help perpetuate a system in which women are taught to value their bodies and gender roles as mothers and wives over their minds."