Gender Discrimination by Vivien Chew https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination Fight for Woman en-us 2018-09-11 11:32:36 UTC 2026-01-15 19:43:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png Situation viviencv1830 https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination/wish/279792603
  • Gender discrimination is one of the worldwide issues which has been publicly reverberating for decades.
  • It can be defined as a situation in which the way of treating a person is unfair.
  • Gender discrimination can be occured at anytime, anywhere.
  • at workplace and at home
  • Since ancient, females are perceived as less valuable.
  • Exp: In China, it is useless for girls to acquire knowledges in school because they will be marrying someone one day and their major responsibility will be taking care of the family.
  • In working industries such as entertainment industry
  • According to data collected by San Diego State University, less than 10 percent of the top 250 grossing domestic films have been directed by women in recent years (Wang, 2016).
  • Gender discrimination in entertainment industry has to be overcome because:
  • actress can get paid equally as actor
  • they can get equal respect
  • their skills and talents can get recognized
  • they will have more chances for being the main spot of the films
  • In future(2019), there will be a new heroine,Captain Marvel(Kroll, 2016)
  • If the issue is being ignored:(linked to PROBLEM)
  • perpetuate poverty and vulnerability are faced by women in society as a whole
  • the standard of women is being degraded in the society
  • women is facing unemployment

    • ]]>     2018-09-11 11:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination/wish/279792603     Problem viviencv1830 https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination/wish/279792797
  • women have higher chance to face poverty in society as a whole
  • “on average, men earn 24 percent more than women, or more than $27,000 a year”(Ryan, 2015)
  • Emma Watson has spoken out countless times about gender equality and addressed the issue of the wage gap in her speeches over couple of years(Garcia, 2016)
  • actress faces perpetuate poverty because they are paid less than actor
  • Last year, the top ten earning actresses brought in a combined salary of $172 million while the top ten men earned $488.5 million(Elsesser, 2018).
  • this simply means women earned 35 cents on the dollar compared to the men.
  • due to equality, they should be paid equal as the men
  • if they do not have equal pay, it is a form of sacrificing their energy but do not get the income they supposed to receive.
  • sacrifice time, energy and health (same as the men)
  • lower income received
  • forced to control the use of income in their life or else they will be easily faced bankruptcy
  • women are being degraded in the current world
  • do not have the power to make any decision 
  • their opinions are not taken seriously most of the time
  • people assume women are to be protected but not protecting others
  • superheros are always the men but not women
  • the main character is always a man but not woman
  • people believes women cannot accomplish certain harder task like men
  • exp: stunt
  • However,Alice(Milla Jovovich) in Resident Evil performed all the stunts by her own(Bradberry, 2002)
  • when women are being degraded in the current world, they will be less confident on completing task that considered as impossible for them
  • they are afraid of accept challenges that have to face during filming or directing films
  • talented women will then miss out the chance because of lack of confidence
  • therefore, women can be easily degraded and eliminated from entertainment industry
  • women face unemployment
  • they do not get any job although they are talented,having skills or graduated from higher education such as master degrees in film directing
  • Exp: Hollywood is not hiring women directors
  • they assume that women are not ready to direct action(Buchanan, 2015)
  • According to California Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins,due to persistent inequality and discrimination at the highest levels of corporate leadership, women are being denied access and opportunity(McGregor, 2018)
  • women are unemployed due to their gender
  • when they are unemployed, it will raise the unemployment rate in the country
  • although they are being unemployed, but they are still actively searching for job
  • in this situation, they are overstating the unemployment rate
  • if the problem continues, it will affect the image of the country
  • affect the economic growth as a whole

    • ]]>     2018-09-11 11:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination/wish/279792797     Solution viviencv1830 https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination/wish/279792824 1.Pay equality
    -Should not pay based on gender and sexuality.
    -Fame,popularity and prestige.
    - Kruminis,2018
    “Male movie stars would have to take pay cuts if they were serious about equal pay for women”,Salma Hayek (cast of The Hummingbird Project)
    -Either increase pay for woman or decrease pay for men
    -Eg: 5 cast of the Big Bang Theory took $100,000-per-episode pay cut to show support for their co-stars actress, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch(Goldberg,2017)
    -Not only for friendship, for respect.

    2.Films production company changes people’s perspective through their work pieces
    -Cinema is always a powerful medium for culture, education, leisure and propaganda. (Shah, 2011)
    -changing portrayal of woman’s character in movies
    -shape woman as leading and strong characters
    Eg: Wonder Woman 
    -A story about Diana who used to be a princess of Amazons and was trained to be an unconquerable warrior. She left home to stop massive conflicts that is raging in the outside world.(Samadi,2017)
    -Portrayed that woman has power to make changes
    -Need to improve the opportunities for other talented woman within the industry and create role models-as characters on screen and in real life behind the lens to inspire the next generations(Al Mansour,2016)

    3.Employ cast not based on gender
    -hire cast based on fame, working experience, extreme of professionality
    -based on how productive can a cast contribute to the final work
    -not judge based on gender
    -In 2013, only 29.2% of all speaking characters on screen were female.(Smith,2014)
    -Add more female characters on screen(female leads, co leads or supporting characters)
    -More female characters on screen means more variation of characterization
    -When you have a film with more than one female character, then the defining character trait of each respective female character doesn’t have to be that she is female.(Mendelson,2014)
    -Not every woman has to be defined as strong,independent
    Eg: Thor:The Dark World-featuring 4 female characters who are strong,smart,vulnerable and real that all have their own personalities and motivations at play(Bailey,2013)


    ]]>     2018-09-11 11:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination/wish/279792824     Evaluation viviencv1830 https://padlet.com/viviencv1830/genderdiscrimination/wish/279792862 1.Pay equality
    -A huge stepping stones for companies in the industry
    -Assumed that men always remained more valuable in the film industry
    -Kruminis,2018
     “Pay equity is not only a question of dollars and cents--it’s also a question of value”,Ashley Louise,co-founder of Ladies Get Paid(career development organization)    
    -Pay is subjective in film industry (pay often differs between films and actress)
    -Minority of women are stepping out to negotiate about salaries paid
    -68% of woman accepted the salary they were offered and did not negotiate, 52% point difference when compared to man(Sankar,2017)
    -negotiation is the key to close pay gap

    2.Films production company changes people’s perspective through their work pieces
    -Films have huge influence on the society over the year.
    -Provide better understanding to the society
    -Used to portray woman characters as weak. Their job is to stay at home-take care family, household chores
    -Not giving society a vision of female protagonist.
    -O’Regan(2016)
    Eg: Disney
    -In the past, princess must be saved by the prince(Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Cinderella)
    -Now, Disney adapted to changes in society by creating leading female characters in their movies.
    -Merida(Brave), Anna(Frozen)
    -Agence France-Presse(2018)
    Eg: Evangeline Lilly(actress of Ant-Man and The Wasp)
    -At first, Marvel was going to introduce The Wasp’s origin story in Marvel’s 2016 release Captain America: Civil War
    -But then Marvel decided to dedicate a film introducing this female superhero and they don’t want her just to be a side note.
    -The issue must be overcome through the same media from where it started.
    -By seeing how huge films companies(Disney and Marvel)react; it will totally help in changing people’s perspective through their fame and movies.

    3.Employ cast not based on gender
    -people in the industry are used to their own thinking
    -The fact remains that the standard and overwhelming “normal” in cinema is explicitly male-centric period(Mendelson, 2014)
    - “There is a film (that she is considering) now where I have to wait for all the males roles to be cast before I can become a part of the conversation”, Anna Kendrick (Jang,2015)
    -Casting females based on who cast for males
    -traditional mindset that applied throughout the years in the industry


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