Documentary Pick: Miss Representation

Miss Represention is a very thought provoking documentary about the media's representation of women, women in influential positions and the impact of one on the other.

3 things particularly hit me:

• "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any" - Alice Walker

• The media has a massive responsibility as they hugely shape public opinion.  The average person consumes ~10 hours of media a day (including TV, magazines and online sources).

• Women are under-represented in news reports, objectified in film, music and magazines and undermined.

Definitely worth a watch - what is even more shocking about the representation of women in the media, is how society, and particularly women, are seemly either not aware of the statistics or simply not outraged by this like we should be.

In particular, if you are a father, husband, brother please watch this.  Women alone will not be able to achieve the equality that is not only fair but beneficial to our society (just google the business case for diversity - this really needs a blog of its own...).

"You can't be just a little bit equal" - Tessa Jowell

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Links to check out:

http://www.seejane.org/index.php

http://therepresentationproject.org/