{"id":276,"date":"2008-10-27T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2008\/10\/27\/girls-and-boys-and-television\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T17:09:00","slug":"girls-and-boys-and-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2008\/girls-and-boys-and-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls and Boys and Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/kidsfirst.org\/images\/Blog\/GirlsandBoysTV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/kidsfirst.org\/images\/Blog\/GirlsandBoysTV.jpg\" width=\"145\" \/><\/a>The International Central Institute for Youth and Education Television recently released a new survey from Maya Gotz about gender in children&#8217;s television worldwide. Although,&nbsp;strong female characters are not completely absent,&nbsp;far more often young and adult men are the heroes in TV programmes. This&nbsp;international analysis of children\u2019s television&nbsp;reveals an unambiguous tendency: Of all the main characters on children\u2019s TV only 32 % are female whereas&nbsp;in reality,&nbsp;women count for 51 % of the world\u2019s population. It begs&nbsp;the question: Why do we still encounter stereotypes after 150 years of feminism? <\/div>\n<p>In the world\u2019s largest quantitative media analysis of children\u2019s TV so far the main characters of fictional programmes in 24 countries were coded. The results show a clear under-representation and stereotyped depiction of female characters worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>All reports are available on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.br-online.de\/jugend\/izi\/english\/publication\/televizion\/21_2008_E\/21_2008_E.htm\">Children&#8217;s TV Worldwide<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Central Institute for Youth and Education Television recently released a new survey from Maya Gotz about gender in children&#8217;s television worldwide. Although,&nbsp;strong female characters are not completely absent,&nbsp;far more often young and adult men are the heroes in TV programmes. This&nbsp;international analysis of children\u2019s television&nbsp;reveals an unambiguous tendency: Of all the main characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-4s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}