Women In The Media: Female TV And Film Characters Still Sidelined And Sexualized, Study Finds

The Huffington Post  |  By Nina Bahadur 

For every Carrie Mathison, the brilliant, complicated spy Claire Danes plays on "Homeland," there are six "Real Housewives" -- in other words, the way women are represented on television and in film is pretty dismal. That's the message researchers are taking away from a new study out of a joint collaboration between USC Annenberg and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.