"Stereotyped Women in Advertising"

Stereotyped Women in Advertising For my research of gender roles in today's society, I decided to take a look at how men and women are portrayed in advertising. I watched three hours of prime time television commercials to see which products were directed at which gender. I developed criteria for my research to distinguish between commercials of and for men and commercials of and for women. I looked at location (inside or outside of the …showed first 75 words of 1644 total…

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