Gender representation refers to how individuals are portrayed and represented based on their gender. It involves how people are depicted in various forms of media such as movies, television, advertisements, and other forms of visual communication. For example, it can explore whether there is a balanced and fair portrayal of both men and women, without reinforcing stereotypes or biases. The phrase includes the idea of ensuring that both genders are accurately represented and given equal opportunities in various aspects of life.
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I'm not sure that I ever questioned it growing up but playing this one through to the end you realise how much has changed in terms
of gender representation.
The application included more than 200 questions on
gender representation at all levels, with a focus on corporate officers and profit - and - loss leadership ranks.
By moving in the direction of having publicly traded companies have a policy that includes consideration of
gender representation on boards and in senior management, we hope that they will really take that issue seriously, that they'll consider how they're finding people to be on their boards, how they're moving women through senior management roles and making them eligible for boards appointments.
With only two actresses counted among the nine names above the title on Thor: Ragnarok's key art, all the gloating here about Marvel doing its part
for gender representation feels hollow and premature (if not patently absurd), but it's gratifying to hear Kirby cited as a major influence on the production design of Sakaar.
Digitalundivided is also hard at work on Project Diane, originally an effort to collect data on racial and
gender representation across the startup landscape.
Limitations include small sample size, retrospective recall may have been compromised, and unable to differentiate condition from therapist effects, may not generalize to other racial / ethnic groups or to the broader population of depressed adolescents with comorbid conduct disorder and other psychiatric disorders, and randomization process resulted in
unequal gender representation in the two conditions.
In 2009, she received an honorary doctorate from Bates College for her work through the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a nonprofit research organization focused on
analyzing gender representation in the media industry.
The Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle submitted recommendations to the OSC
regarding gender representation on boards — specifically to adopt a stance of «comply or explain» — and we are pleased it was adopted.
Our Glass Ceiling Index finds
skewed gender representation and ethnic sameness in many institutions of American politics, culture and education.
I don't think many women will be alarmed by the thought of their political prospects being diminshed by a smaller Commons because women, generally, aren't as interested in politics as the academic argument on
gender representation makes them out to be.
Proportional representation also gives parties a larger range of options in terms of how they go about
getting gender representation, with methods such as zipping or party internal gender quotas in selections.
Women in science groups could also hold their institutions accountable to
gender representation by publishing statistics tracking rates of attrition at every stage of science education, hiring, and tenure - granting processes, as well as establishing paid awards to facilitate women staying in science.
«We do not mean to imply that there is no discrimination against women, that hostile environments do not exist, or that issues of
gender representation do not need to be continually addressed in American universities,» said Catherine O'Riordan, AIP vice president of Physics Resources.
It does all that with kindness, smart, often uproarious humour and a candid, feminine point of view — hell, it even quotes Joan Didion in its opening title card — that counters the crisis of
gender representation now coming to a head in Hollywood.
Nintendo's been surprisingly good
with gender representation in the upcoming Wii U game Hyrule Warrior so far; the overwhelming majority of playable hero characters are women and girls from the Legend of Zelda franchise.
These functional, wearable sculptures in his PLUSH and TURBOGRAFX series inhabit pop culture while
obscuring gender representation via the queering of color aesthetics.
From 1989 onward, the collective has been
tracking gender representation in some of the world's most well - renowned art institutions, and the male gaze remains alive and well.
To help get a more complete picture of female representation in the workplace he decided to take a look at how the top 100 Canadian companies (by revenue)
disclose gender representation in their public reports.
The 2018 Oscars featured several presenters and winners discussing the Time's Up movement and the need
for gender representation.
It's possible to be thrilled by her success, while also remaining frustrated that she's the first woman to be so honoured by the Academy and that
gender representation across all industry sectors remains so shameful.
One common question about this
unequal gender representation is whether it is a reflection of unequal active citizenship in lower - stakes areas of political participation.
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Gender representation on corporate boards of directors; Economic development; Explorers and travelers
Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal
gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.
A letter organised by Shadow Equalities Secretary Dawn Butler and seen by PoliticsHome says Labour «must ensure we maintain our current balance in terms of
gender representation».
«In light of Heidi Alexander's resignation, we must ensure we maintain our current balance in terms of
gender representation.
The memo, organised by Shadow Equalities Secretary Dawn Butler, said Labour «must ensure we maintain our current balance in terms of
gender representation».
But in the real world, «if you change
the gender representation in a homework group, there may be other things that change as a result.
Opinion and debate over this topic has, in many cases, centered on numerical references — related to proportional ethnic and
gender representation — without clearly emphasizing the significance of diversity.
The absence of women on the list has drawn attention on social media, with some researchers wondering if the result reflected a bias in Semantic Scholar's ranking algorithm, or is another expression of long - documented differences in
gender representation in the biomedical sciences and scientific publishing.
Princeton philosopher Sarah - Jane Leslie and University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign psychologist Andrei Cimpian became interested in
gender representation in fields that emphasize talent versus fields that emphasize work while discussing the difference between psychology and philosophy.
Each group had equal
gender representation.
About Blog The goal of this site is to track the speaker composition of conferences in neuroscience, particularly with respect to
gender representation.
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Gender representation on corporate boards of directors; Economic development; Explorers and travelers Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) In Florida's halls of power, Sherry Johnson is somewhat of an anomaly: a black woman who grew up destitute and
This teasing ambiguity of the film's
gender representation may explain why Thailand was chosen as the setting.
Especially on the heels of the rampant dissection of Seth MacFarlane's sexism at the Oscars, it's awkward that this first wide release since the Oscar telecast is inherently traditional in
its gender representations.
As you'll recall, our topic last week's #EtherIssue turned on Nottingham author Jonathan Emmett «s write - up of his research on
gender representation in the children's book industry (with an emphasis on picture books) and on review attention to that work.