Women in Drama
Women in Podcasts
How Women are depicted in Drama
Hello everyone. I’m Chelsea and welcome back to Women in Podcasts. The amazing Olivia and Evelyn join me. Today we will be diving into the portrayal of women in dramas. We will talk about the underrepresentation of women in dramas as well as the negative image women are always painted to be.
Intro to Topic
Throughout our year in Ms. Dykty’s English 4 class, we read drama and analyzed the characters. As we were reading A Streetcar Named Desire, Fences, and Kite Runner we noticed that women tended to be the outliers of the cast and always were depicted in a negative light. We will discuss our feeling and opinions on this topic.
Segment 1: Underrepresentation/Minor Characters
Much fewer female characters in dramas than males
Few dramas with female leads
Limited women throughout books, limited speaking for the few characters
Segment 2: Limited roles/ Labeled poorly
Most women fall under the stereotypical wife role
Marriage and Parenthood are considered more important for a woman’s life rather than a man’s
Those who don’t fall into the typical wife model are usually labeled as a societal outcasts
The representation of a woman’s body image often plays a huge role in the portrayal of women in dramas
Outro
We hope you enjoyed our podcast and will think about how women are depicted in drama as we did. Women often are not represented enough in drama and when they are, they are seen as crazy or labeled to be something they are not.
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