The Huffington Post published a review of communication professor Stacy Smith's new report on the role of women in media.
The study, a collaboration between USC Annenberg and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, analyzed thousands of women's speaking roles in prime-time television, children's television shows and family movies.
"In a summary of the study's findings, the researchers reported that they found a lack of aspirational female role models in all three media categories, and cited five main observations," the article read. "Female characters are sidelined, women are stereotyped and sexualized, a clear employment imbalance exists, women on TV come up against a glass ceiling, and there are not enough female characters working in STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics] fields."
The article also noted that the study discovered "only 28.3 percent of characters in family films, 30.8 percent of characters in children's shows, and 38.9 percent of characters on prime time television were women."
