Discuss the central findings of research on the content of most television programming as it relates to gender
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- Men are usually more dominant than women in male-female interactions.
- Men are often portrayed as rational, ambitious, smart, competitive, powerful, stable, violent, and tolerant; women are portrayed as sensitive, romantic, attractive, happy, warm, sociable, peaceful, fair, submissive, and timid.
- Television programming emphasizes male characters' strength, performance, and skill; for women, it focuses on attractiveness and desirability.
- Marriage and family are not as important to men as to women in television programs. One study of TV programming found that for nearly half the men it wasn't possible to tell if they were married, a fact that was true for only 11 percent of the women.
- Television ads for boy-oriented products focus on action, competition, destruction, and control; television ads for girl-oriented products focus on limited activity, feelings, and nurturing.
- Approximately 65 percent of the characters in television programs are male (even most of the Muppets have male names and voices).
- Men are twice as likely as women to come up with solutions to problems.
- Women are depicted as sex objects more frequently than men.
- Men are shown to be clumsy and inept in dealing with infants and children.
- Saturday morning children's programs typically feature males in dominant roles with females in supporting or peripheral roles.
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