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Miss Representation
2011 · Film · documentary · 85 min
Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom
The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.
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The Miss Representation documentary is REALLY GOOD. If you have a mother, sister, daughter, or girlfriend I'd highly recommend watching it.
When I hear people say girls don’t stick around in math and science because they are not interested, I’d like to point them to the commercials that play on Saturday morning cartoons or to the faces they see on the boxes in the toy aisles. If you have kids, take a minute to look around the next time you are buying toys. You might find it eye-opening. Although I haven’t seen it, I hear the documentary “Miss Representation” deals with this topic."
Certainly that was true in 1982. But since then we've had many, many, many programs promoting Science for girls.
Searching for "STEM girls programs" on Google gets 23.8 million hits. So I'm curious how many millions of dollars will be spent before the example of the toy aisles (from the eighties) stops getting trotted out.
Some notable examples: Girl Scouts: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/basics/science/
STEM grants for girls: http://stemgrants.com/mini-stem-grants-for-girls/
Techbridge (STEM for girls): http://www.techbridgegirls.org/