Miss Representation

четверг, 03 июля 2014

00:38

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I don’t wanna feel Blue anymore...

53% of 13-year-old girls are unhappy with their bodies. That number increases to 78% by age 17.

Depression in women has doubled since 1970

Rates of depression are the same among boys and girls until puberty, but twice as many women are diagnosed as depressed post-puberty

Girls between 11 and 14 see on average 500 ads a day

The number of cosmetic surgical procedures performed on youth under age 19 more than tripled from 1997 to 2007.

In 2011, only 11% of protagonists in films were female.

Between 1937 and 2005 there were only 13 female protagonists in animated films…All of them except one had the aspiration of finding romance.

1 in 4 women are abused by a partner in their lifetime

1 in 6 women are survivors of rape or attempted rape

15% of rape survivors are under the age of 12

Women are about 37% of prime-time TV characters (they are 51% of the U.S. population). Women 45 and older are only 15% of prime-time TV characters.

Eighty percent of 10-year-old American girls say they have been on a diet. The number one magic wish for young girls age 11-17 is to be thinner

Source: therepresentationproject.org/resources/statisti...

I also took the pledge today.

@темы: issues, video