This document summarizes a presentation on a study of gender representations in Italian television advertising. The study analyzed over 1700 characters from commercials and found that traditional stereotypes largely persist, with women more often depicted in subordinate or domestic roles and based on physical attractiveness. However, some commercials presented newer models that showed women as professionals or balancing work and family, and men engaged in domestic tasks. While change exists, male and female identities remain largely divided in advertising, with exceptions that prove the traditional rule. More research is needed to fully understand the slow evolution of gender portrayals.
The ad world is still reinforcing gender stereotypes. Products for women even tend to cost more. Which is a sheer lunacy when you know that women control 80% of brand purchases...
Why then? Because there are still few women at the top? Or because the ads are a current representation of our deeply embedded sexist archetypes?
Let's see which campaigns are shifting the balance!
The ad world is still reinforcing gender stereotypes. Products for women even tend to cost more. Which is a sheer lunacy when you know that women control 80% of brand purchases...
Why then? Because there are still few women at the top? Or because the ads are a current representation of our deeply embedded sexist archetypes?
Let's see which campaigns are shifting the balance!
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1. OLD-FASHIONED WOMEN
THE REPRESENTATIONOF FEMALE IMAGE
IN THE ITALIAN TELEVISION ADVERTISING
Sevilla University - April 2, 2014
Paola Panarese - La Sapienza University of Rome
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An Old-fashioned Research
Representations
Female images
Advertising
Television
Theoretical basis
Method
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What we know
Content analyses pointed to the
small number, poor quality,
and limited roles afforded
female characters in the
medium
(Courtney and Whipple 1974; Dominick
and Rauch 1972; McArthur and Resko
1975; O'Donnell and O'Donnell 1978;
Scheibe 1979; Schneider and Schneider
1979; Gilly 1988).
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Men are overrepresented,
used as “expert” voiceover,
less shown in family roles, at
home, more presented in all
jobs
Women are younger, shorter,
shown in secondary roles, in
family, at home, as
unemployed
What we know
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A question
«Moreover, we did not
know all there was to
know about these old
media already?
What more could we
find about the
stereotypes of women
in advertising?»
(Van Zoonen, 2011: 3)
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Actually
We don’t know
everything there
is to know
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Actually
We have tried to answer
the question «What else
is there to say?»
(Johnson, 2007: 14)
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Why Advertising?
GEMMA (Gender and
Media Matters) Observatory
Because of the role of
consumption in our lives
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About Consumption
«Probably, we are
consumers, more than
anything else. More than just
students, professors,
managers, milkmen or
greengrocers we are
consumers»
(Dalli, Romani, 2003: 5)
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About Consumption
We are all consumers, but we
consume in a different way
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About Consumption
There are “masculine” and
“feminine” objects,
different purchasing
practices, use of products
(Kirkham, 1996; Ames, Martinez,
1996) and attitudes
towards shopping (Dholakia,
1999).
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About Consumption
Purchase and consumption
of goods and services help to
express – and to generate -
masculinity and femininity
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About Consumption
Advertising helped to
popularize a certain woman
image (Passerini 1992)
Advertising showed less
virile male images (Bellassai,
2003)
Visual codes of fashion
communication spread a
new male identity (Bovone,
Ruggerone, 2006)
14.
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Why Women?
There is a special
relationship between
female characters and
commercial
communication
16.
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Women and Advertising
The housewife and the sensual
woman images are both examples
of a partial and stiffened
representation of femininity
Product of the hyper-ritualization
(Goffman, 1977)
The consequences are not
irrelevant
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Gender Advertisements
Women appear more often in
a subordinate position
(hierarchical function)
They seem to be distracted
by the situation
(estrangement)
They tend to touch their
body or caress objects
(feminine touch)
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A new research
Aims:
to update previous analysis
to determine whether and
to what extent traditional
gender representations
are spread
to look for any “new”,
richer and modern
representation
to provide new data for
future Italian researches
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Research Question
Has the Italian television
advertising accepted
and encouraged the
change in the
processes of identities
construction and
gender relations?
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Method
We analyzed the contents of
the six main Italian
television networks (RAI1,
RAI2, RAI3, Rete4, Canale5
and Italia1), recorded for 7
days, between 8 and 2.
9979 total commercials
815 unique commercials
1798 characters
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Method
First we use content
analysis, considered as a
mix between the
“classical” Berelson’s
approach (1952) and the
analysis as investigation
Then a qualitative
analysis of some case
studies
Interesting results
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Results
2 of 5 30-seconds spots
43% broadcasted in the
morning
Over a quarter promoting food
products
Their setting refers especially to
current or indefinite places and
times, with a realistic
connotation.
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Results
90% of TVC has a
voiceover
Male in more than 2 cases
out of 3
Men voices dominate the
commercials for men's
goods, but also for food
and cleaning products.
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More than half of the 1798
characters are women.
Results
26. Role of male and female characters
(percentages)
Base dati: 1798Base dati: 1798
Database: 1798
Role of male and female characters (percentages)
43,0%
58,4% 55,3%
57,0%
41,6% 44,7%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
protagonist relevant, but not protagonist secondary
female
male
Database: 1798
27. Type of male and female characters
(percentages)
Base dati: 1798Base dati: 1798Role of male and female characters (percentages)
Database: 1798
39,3%
43,6%
62,3%
60,7%
56,4%
37,7%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
common famous competent
female male
Database: 1798
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Women are younger
than men, mainly
depicted at home, and
as unemployed
Female empowerment?
29. Work of male and female characters
(percentages)
71,0%
66,9% 69,2%
100,0%
55,0%
29,0%
33,1% 30,8%
100,0%
45,0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
freelancer manager/teacher employee worker housewife retired
female male
Database: 1798
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Aesthetic features
Beautiful faces are
feminine in four
cases out of five
Over 80% of the
skinny figures are
female
Less conventional
eyes or hair colors
are prerogative of
the female figures
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Aesthetic features
Female figures are
shooting especially in
close-ups
Medium shots or long
shots are mainly used
for men.
32. Shots of male and female characters
(percentages)
72,8%
59,3%
53,0% 49,5%
33,5%
29,2%
8,3%
27,2%
40,7%
47,0% 50,5%
66,5%
70,8%
91,7%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Extreme long
shot, long
shot, medium-
long shot
Medium shot Two shot Medium-close
shot
Close-up Extreme close-
up
Detail shot
female male
Database: 1798
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Very little has changed
since the time of
Goffman’s analysis
The image of wife and
mother prevails over the
others
Base dati: 1798Base dati: 1798
Base dati: 1798
Results
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An example
Attention wife! Do you want to
go out for dinner? Do not
propose this meal to your
husband!
Attention wife! Your husband
does not say a word during the
dinner? Remove the dish from
the table!
Attention moms! This meal
keeps children at home beyond
age 40.
Base dati: 1798
Base dati: 1798
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Despite the expectations, the
sensual woman/object is
not very popular in our
sample.
She serves to embellish the
scene or attract the gaze.
She often appears in spots of
products related to
seduction
Results
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Qualitative analysis
If the whole sample
shows mostly
old-fashioned
women, we have seen
some glimmer of
novelty
These new features
regard women
appearance only in
the case of Dove
commercials
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Novelties related to
the enrichment of
role portrayals are
more
Sometimes women
are depicted as
professionals and
ambitious workers,
inserted in different
workplaces,
flanked to the men
New models
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A more original
figure is the
multitasking
mother of a
Fastweb spot,
an everyday
heroine, able to
manage both
family and
career
New models
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New models
The researcher
Mellin milk for
children (I study it
as a researcher, I
choose it as a
mom).
Lines è tampons
(Designed by
women for you).
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Even the representation
of men is quite
conventional.
The novelties concern
those spots where the
man takes care of his
children, prepares
meals or uses house
cleaning products
(Conad, Bio Presto, Dash,
Knorr).
New models?
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The portrayal of the
man as a seducer or
an object appears in
a limited number of
spots and repeats
many clichés of the
representation of
the bait woman
(Lavazza, Dolce and
Gabbana)
New models?
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Male and female
continue to occupy
different areas of
expertise and still
reveal few points of
contact.
Not surprisingly, the
hybrid or
transgender figures
are absent in the
sample
New models?
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Italian women and men are
characters in motion
Women, in particular, live and
promote a radical and rapid
change.
It’s difficult to catch this
change in just a few seconds
of a spot.
No wonder for the general
static image of gender
identity
Conclusion
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At a closer look, the
apparently fixed frames of
male and female figures
reflect together a moving
image
Slow motion
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However, the openings are
few
Male and female identities
are divided
The change can be found
not in the reduction of
their differences, but in
their representation in a
new form.
Slow motion
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Exceptions
The few partially new
advertising images
are exceptions that
prove the rule
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Next steps
We are more concerned
with the ways in which
television contributes to
change than with mapping
the obvious ways in
which it maintains
dominant viewpoints»
(Newcomb and Hirsch 1984, p. 70).