GENDER SENSITISATION AND ROLE OF WOMEN Culture Prepared by kaoser perveen Student of post RN BScN semester1 Faculty: Rameesh kumar 13,januarym2016 New life college of nursing

. Objective GENDER SENSITISATION AND ROLE OF WOMEN

The Effects of Magazine Advertising on The Perceived Abilities of Women in Leadership Positions Jennifer George Michelle Uhlenbrock

Media Advertisement Media advertising relies on and reinforces stereotypes of women Evident in TV advertising, magazines Gendered Advertisements (Goffman, 1976) How women and men are portrayed in print advertisements Six visual cues for power that tend to be in favor of male dominance

Media Advertisement (cont.) High fashion magazines often portray women in negative light Submissive Powerless Objectified/sexualized Childlike Not all magazine advertisements portray women in negative light Powerful women are present in ads, but scarce

Past Studies of Magazine Advertisements Rudman and Borgida (1995) Sexist vs. non-sexist ads Women in sexist ads rated as less intelligent, less powerful, and less autonomous Findings: Exposure to sexist ads increased the occurrence of thoughts about women as objects

What About Women? TV Commercials as Achievement Scripts for Women (Geis, Brown, Jennings & Porter, 1984) Women who viewed sex-stereotyped commercials were more likely to deemphasize achievement and emphasize homemaking

Stereotyping How Gender Stereotypes Prevent Women’s Ascent Up the Organizational Ladder (Heilman, 2001) There is a scarcity of women in upper level positions Gender stereotypes and the expectations they produce can have negative effects on women in the workplace

Research Question We are interested in studying how magazine advertisements (specifically women’s fashion and beauty magazines) affect perceptions of women in leadership positions

Methods Materials Magazine advertisements from high fashion and beauty magazines Cosmo, Vogue, InStyle, Glamour, and Women’s Health

Materials (cont.) Types of Ads “Negative” categories Artificial: doll-like, mannequin, unreal, puppet Sexualized Heroin chic “Neutral” category Athletic category Blurred product information to prevent associations with products

Gender Authority Measure Questionnaire Rudman and Kilianski (2000) Series of statements that evaluate people’s preferences for men and women in leadership positions Rated on a 1-5 Likert scale Our study: 1-6 scale Example: “If I were in serious legal trouble, I would prefer a male to a female lawyer.”

Hypothesis We expect to find that both men and women who view the negative categories of ads, will score higher on the GAM, than those participants who viewed neutral or athletic ads. Scoring higher = greater preference for men than for women in high-status jobs

What we expected to find… GAM

Participants & Procedure 272 participants 48 males 220 females 4 chose not to respond Ages 18 – 62 Average : 25 Online study Informed consent and random assignment to 5 different levels of the IV

Procedure (cont.) First set of GAM questions answered GAM split into pre and post measure to increase statistical power 9 questions each 10 advertisements from a single category Brief response given to each ad ‘Use three words to describe this ad.’ Second set of GAM questions Demographic questions Debriefing form

What We Expected to Find… GAM

Time vs. Condition GAM F(4,259) = 1.786, p = α = 0.853α = 0.7

Discussion We concluded that short term effects of advertisements on people’s perceptions of women in leadership positions were mild and perhaps non- existent We are still concerned about the long term effects and effects on other attitudes

Limitations Procedure Limited number of ads. Shown for a short period of time Conditions Some ads could have easily fit into more than one category Could have used more “pure” ads

Connections to Past Research Geis, Brown, Jennings and Porter (1984) Had significant results – why? Participants wrote essays about how they imagine their lives and concerns 10 years from now, allowed for flexibility Used TV ads which vividly depict life as opposed to still photography

Future Directions Repeat research as a longitudinal study Use different methods of measuring attitudes Measuring different attitudes Stricter rules for ad selection and categorization Different types of media Television, commercials, music, etc.

Conclusion Reasons to be concerned These magazines reach over 9,000,000 women a year Ways women are being portrayed is negative

Questions?