Taking Back The Medi Margaret Gallagher - 2586 Words

Rachel Bidock Sister Lucia Treanor, FSE WRT-150-29 October 20, 2014 Taking Back the Media Margaret Gallagher, a researcher specializing in gender and the media and the author of, â€Å"Women, Media And Democratic Society: In Pursuit Of Rights And Freedoms† once said, â€Å"in the name of freedom of speech, the media claim the right to represent women as they wish.† In society today women have degrees, doctorates, own businesses and even run entire countries yet they are still underrepresented in one of the largest and most well known industries: the media, including news, magazines, TV, radio programs and so fourth. Although women are representing entire countries there is only a very small portion managing high senior positions in media corporations. Media has been known to portray women as beauty and not brains they are seen in magazines as merely objects and in news reports as just a pretty face. It is time that women who are qualified get the chance to take control of media and start representing men and women as equals by giving bo th genders the same opportunities in front of the camera as well as equal opportunities to reach senior positions in media networks. To begin, men take up more than half of all the positions in media. They hold 2/3 of all executive positions, while women hold only 1/3 according to Karen Ross a professor of Media at the University of Liverpool, the former foundational editor of Communication, Culture Critique, and author of â€Å"Women in Media