STATISTICS FROM MISS REPRESENTATION

 

American teenagers spend: 31 hours a week watching T.V. (source) 17 hours a week listening to music  3 hours a week watching movies (source) 4 minutes a week reading magazines (source) and 10 hours a week online.  

 

That’s 10 hours and 45 minutes of media consumption a day.  

 

It’s estimated that there is somewhere north of 1 billion people who use the Internet every single day. 

 

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

 

It is estimated that out of the 8 million people with an eating disorder 7 of those million are women.  

 

65% of US women and girls report disordered eating behaviors.

 

17% of teens engage in cutting and self-injurious behavior.

 

Depression in women has doubled since 1970.

 

U.S advertisers spent $235.6 billion in 2009.  80% of the countries in the world have GDP’s less than that.

 

U.S women spend $12,000 to $15,000 a year on beauty products and salon services.

 

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

 

Women make up 51% of the US population… however women comprise only 20% of Congress.

 

71 countries in the world have had female presidents or prime ministers, the US is not one of them.

 

U.S. women continue to earn 77¢ to every dollar that men earn.

 

In nine states and the District of Colombia women who are victims of domestic abuse can be denied healthcare coverage because domestic abuse can be considered a preexisting condition.

 

The U.S is the only major industrialized nation without paid family leave.

 

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.

 

In Nancy Pelosi’s four years as Speaker of the House, she has been on the cover of zero national weekly magazines.

 

Women own only 5.8% of all television stations and 6% of radio stations.

 

Women hold only 3% of clout positions in the mainstream media (telecommunications, entertainment, publishing, and advertising). 

 

Studies prove exposures to sexually explicit video games and music videos is linked to men’s acceptance of rape myths and sexual harassment

1 in 4 girls experience teen dating violence.

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.

 

Rape survivors are more likely to suffer from depression, alcohol and drug abuse, or contemplated suicide

 

70% of women in the workforce are mothers; yet we have no national paid leave child care or flex time policy.

 

 

 

42% of children under 8 years old have a TV in their bedroom

 

 

52% of  0 to 8 year olds have access to a new mobile device such as a smart phone, video iPod, or iPad/tablet

 

 

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

 

 

Males outnumber females 3 to 1 in family films. In contrast, females comprise just over 50% of the population in the United States. Even more staggering is the fact that this ratio, as seen in family films, is the same as it was in 1946

 

 

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.

 

 

Male TV characters (41%) were more likely to be shown “on the job” than female characters (28%). Men were more likely to talk about work than women were (52% vs. 40%) and less likely to talk about romantic relationships (49% vs. 63%)

 

 

Only 20% of news articles are about women

 

 

The American Psychological Association estimates that teens are exposed to 14,000 sexual references & innuendos per year on TV

 

 

In 2011, women comprised 18% of all directors,executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films

 

 

Forty-two percent of first to third-grade girls want to be thinner, while 81 percent of 10-year-olds are afraid of getting fat

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

15% of rape survivors are under the age of 12

 

 

In 2008 57% of rape or sexual assaults against females were committed by an offender whom they knew

 

 

Twenty to 25% of women in college reported experiencing an attempted or a completed rape in college

 

 

 

 

 

http://therepresentationproject.org/resources/statistics/