Geena Davis Stats

Characters in family films wearing sexy attire:
Women: 28.3%
Men: 8%

• Women are easier to sexualise
• Men can get away with wearing sexy attire because there is less circumstances of them
• You wouldn't think twice about a shirtless man, whereas the circumstances for women are different

Characters with thin bodies in Prime-Time shows:
Women: 37.5%
Men: 13.6%

• In Modern family; 

1. Cam is the typical gay guy, likes the dramatic arts. 
2. Gloria is fit and beautiful, Jay is overweight and old (Gloria is stereotyped as a gold digger). 
3. Phil vs Claire, good cop vs bad cop, fun dad vs strict uptight mum.
4. Claire & Gloria, they fought about Gloria being a gold-digger and being more beautiful and young and marrying her dad

• Stereotypes create comedy

Speaking characters in prime-time comedies:
Women: 31.5%
Men: 68.5%

• Shows dominance in society
• "Women should be seen not heard"

Shows with gender balanced casts: 22%

• Friends: 

1. Pheobe; stupid blonde vegetarian
2. Joey; dumb actor "how you doin?" played back player
3. Monica; chef, fat growing up
4. Ross; stereotypical nerd, obsessed with dinosaurs, married lots of times & didn't work out because he was a nerd
5. Rachel; use to be dumb rich spoiled one, learnt to take care of herself, get a job
6. Chandler; awkward, 

• Teen Wolf: mostly males

Ratio of male to female characters in children TV Shows:
2.25:1

• Growing up with a false representation of men and women
• Men are shown to be more dominant and superior
• Girls and women aren't relevant
• Females purpose is just to be rescued
• This ratio should be changing now
• Most Children TV shows follow the heroes journey

Percentage of family films with male narrators: 73.5%

• Because men know the whole story, they know everything
• Morgan Freeman 
• Male voices are to be heard and listened to
• Men are more authoritative
• The Princess Bride

Black characters in prime-time shows:
Women: 45.3%
Men: 54.7%

• Again, men are more dominant than men

These statistic tell us that women are insignificant to the media, they're easier to sexualise, less authoritative than men, are dumb and spoilt.

I do not find these statistics very alarming as it was already known to me that women aren't as highly regarding on television as men. Yet, this is not an excuse to not care about the imbalance of these statistics. As time goes on, I do believe that the industry is slowly equalising the appearances of male and female actresses.