The document discusses the influence of media on women's body image. It notes that television, social media, advertisements, and other media portray unrealistic body standards that are unattainable for most women. This leads many girls and women to feel dissatisfied with their bodies and try to attain the flawless looks of celebrities and models through dieting, plastic surgery, or changing their personality. Statistics show high rates of body dissatisfaction among women and girls that increase with exposure to media images.

1. Media & women
By: Raquel Cammuse

2. Introduction

3. Influence On Society
The media has become a powerful influence on woman in society. There are
multiple examples that can explain the perception of this reality.
 Television
 News media
 Social media
 Advertisements
 Reality television
 Gossip Blogs

4. Body Image
 Celebrities and models have created a flawless look for themselves.
Television, make up, and photo shop have made all there flaws and blemishes
disappear.
 Only certain looks are accepted, such as being “skinny”.
 Plastic surgery being influenced on young woman.
 Praising woman on social media as well as the television.

5. Networks statistics
In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to
an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
•In a study on fifth graders, 10 year old girls and boys told researchers they were
dissatisfied with their own bodies after watching a music video by Britney Spears
or a clip from the TV show "Friends".
• A 1996 study found that the amount of time an adolescent watches soaps,
movies and music videos is associated with their degree of body dissatisfaction
and desire to be thin.
•One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with
their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.

6. Statistics on body image
 •69% of girls in 5th – 12th grades reported that magazine pictures influenced
their idea of a perfect body shape - National Association of Anorexia Nervosa
and Associated Disorders
 •Following the viewing of images of female fashion models, seven out of ten
women felt more depressed and angrier than prior to viewing the images –
Rader Programs
 •80% of women who answered a People magazine survey responded that
images of women on television and in the movies make them feel insecure –
Rader Programs
 •The body type portrayed in advertising as the ideal is possessed naturally by
only 5% of American females – National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and
Associated Disorders
 •An average US woman is 5’4” tall weighing 140 pounds; the average US
model is 5’11” weighing 117 pounds – West Virginia Dept of Education

7. Actions and Decisions
 You don’t have to be flawless to be accepted. Every one is beautiful in there
own way. Some woman take action to make themselves look like models even
it that means bodily harm.
 Woman change the way the look to be accepted.
 Using the media to get through life.
 Changing your personality just to fit in.

8. Worked Cited
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