The Guardian

We listened to a podcast about women in the media in one of our lessons recently and the representation of them. I found out 78% of articles are mostly written by men and on Radio 1 in the morning 84% talk about men and what's happening at the moment with them. Women are still represented like they were back in the 1920's and onwards being a 'house wife' or being in childcare. But you could see this being that men are so dominant and the main figure out of the two that this is why women don't push themselves to do as much as men do. As they're aren't many women main figures in the public eye so nobody has anybody to inspire to be like. 5000 women dropped out of work in the past two years. More work experience needs to be done for women such as sport journalists as it's less than 10% and 5% coverage of recording it.

When looking at the representation of men with mine and Ellens film our main character is was a man but has now changed to a woman. When going to the army you see more men but women have recently became more involved. It's more a stereotype to have a man start the army especially when looking at inspirations such as films as it's always men.
Also the military wives produced a song at christmas time 2011 for their men which I think works really well with feminsim and linking in to our film as we seen this genre of film being mainly male based but women are creeping in and even though men are still seen as the dominant character/most important, women are becoming more confident and important as men are as the years go by.