Media Influence On Society's Perception Of Gender

Media plays an important role in society; it provides people with daily current events, entertainment, the way people are supposed to look or act, and most of all society’s perception of gender. Throughout the 20th century, much of children’s understanding of the world has become inaccurate; most of their knowledge has come through the media. However, little do they know is that most of the time media portrays human beings differently then they are in reality. Gender roles are cultural and personal frameworks that determine how males and females are expected to think, speak, dress, and interact. As media becomes an ever more powerful force in shaping the world, it becomes increasingly difficult for many individual's to maintain a unique and self-understanding identity from the media’s influence. Young children are especially vulnerable to the teachings of media because they don't have the awareness necessary to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
These people believe that social media can boost gender equality. An article states, “Social Networking holds potential to boost the economic, political and social empowerment of women, and the promotion of gender equality” (Lakshmi). This displays that media can promote gender equality and also shows that media can show that woman are just as equal and powerful as men. However, what people don’t understand is that kids, teens and maybe even adults do what society usually does and society usually does whatever they see on media correspondingly, not everything in media is positive. For example, all the cyber-bulling that people have done because of gender perception has lead to many deaths in the past. Overall, media impacts societies perception of gender negatively and has lead to harsh problems in the lives of many because of