Gender Roles in Films

I recently read an article featured in the walls street journal in which an actress Greena Davis is advocating more female characters in kids G-rated films.  Greena Davis an academy award winner believes in gender equality in entertainment.  As an actor she always wanted to be challenged in a sport instead of being a girlfriend of someone that plays sports. In films women are given a few opportunities in which they can be depict in real life.   

She states that “And I was absolutely floored to see the same kind of gender bias and gender gap in what we're showing little kids. She'd be on my lap and I'd be counting the characters on my fingers and thinking, "This is just not right." She is advocating fixing the female characters there is for children. She believes that this greatly affects children moods and aspiration in life since studies shows the more television children watch the more constraint they obtain.

The female characters that do exist are highly stereotyped or highly sexualized.  The only aspiration in women characters for films is finding romance. The number one occupation for these characters is royalty.  The more a child sees television the more he or she depicts what is seen. Will this change why is it eminent that only males have and image to look up to. This equality is not alone in G-rated films it is also eminent in higher featured films.  A survey done in 2009 found that male’s roles still far outweigh those roles by women.  The top 100 grossing films of 2009 did the survey. The study found out that 32.8% of the 4,342 speaking characters where women, while 67.2% percent where men. I believe in the years to come the power medium of cinema will have a shift in gender starting roles. Filmmakers are starting to see the gender inequality dilemma.