Summary Of Miss Representation

Miss representation is a documentary on daily women’s struggles of present day. I choose this community project subject because I believe it is important to inform people of certain difficult situations that women go through in daily life. The documentary includes many different scenarios in which women are scrutinized by different sources. This summary will cover all of the scenarios stated in the documentary in chronological order staring with how media judges’ women. The present is all about media. Media is thought to release content that shape society today. Women are constantly being compared to other women on television and social media and measure themselves to an impossible standard. Media has been limiting to women as well as lead
Appearance distracts women from making a difference and making them leaders (Newson et al., 2011). Women are falling behind in modeling a better balance for the rest of the world between men and women leaders. In politics, there is substantially greater number of men than women. This is ironic because it entails that society is choosing leadership from only 6% of the type of people this 6% does not include women (Newson 2011). For instance, around the 1850s women began to become interested in playing a role in certain important political meetings such as the Seneca falls convention men were outraged that women were attending. In the women’s, gender & sexuality studies book there is a quote that states “if our ladies will insist on voting and legislating, where, gentlemen, will be our dinners and our elbows? Where our domestic firesides and the holes in our stockings?” (Saraswati et al., 2018). Without women in politics there is no diplomatic legitimacy and society is short chasing appearances from opinions that matter just as much as men’s. Women are advancing in their legislative agenda because they need to influence other women who seek an