User:JacksonFA/Sociology of gender

Oppression
Through the media, men are taught to be ultra-masculine by being desensitized, violent, and physically strong. Other forms of media that often portray the ultra-masculine figure are advertisements, the Hollywood movie industry, and video games. These forms encourage men to oppress other men if they do not fit the ideals of hegemonic masculinity, as well as develop a self-validation system where men aim to uphold these trivialized ideals of the masculine male. It is theorized that this further amplifies and legitimates the repression of the female in relation to the male.

Throughout history, women have been excluded from media agencies, a key issue highlighted as early as the 18th century by the European and North American suffragists movement. Although stories were published about women, they were often trivialized or biased against women by the patriarchy of all-male news outlets. The suffragist movement was adamant in forming their own media outlet in order to further the knowledge in women's issues and achievements. Due to the patriarchal systems of pre-exisiting news media outlets, women were forced to form their own media outlets, seeing as it having been nearly impossible for women to 'climb the ladder' in terms of corporate hierarchy when looking at newsrooms, radio stations, and editors for the newspapers themselves. By the 20th century, a diaspora of information regarding women and feminist issues, including the likes of women's discrimination within the work place and voting rights, were published in a variety of news media outlets to shed light on the the current issues of women as well as extending the equality of and protection of women's rights through informing and educating the public. As part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5 (SDGs), the UN Women Media Compact was established in order to promote and vitalize the equality within media outlets, more specifically to subdue the oppression of women within media.