Women in Podcasts   

How Women are depicted in Drama 

Hello everyone. I’m Chelsea and welcome back to Women in Podcasts. The amazing Olivia and Evelyn join me. Today we will be diving into the portrayal of women in dramas. We will talk about the underrepresentation of women in dramas as well as the negative image women are always painted to be. 

Intro to Topic

Throughout our year in Ms. Dykty’s English 4 class, we read drama and analyzed the characters. As we were reading A Streetcar Named Desire, Fences, and Kite Runner we noticed that women tended to be the outliers of the cast and always were depicted in a negative light. We will discuss our feeling and opinions on this topic. 

Segment 1: Underrepresentation/Minor Characters

Much fewer female characters in dramas than males 

Few dramas with female leads

Limited women throughout books, limited speaking for the few characters 

Segment 2: Limited roles/ Labeled poorly 

Most women fall under the stereotypical wife role 

Marriage and Parenthood are considered more important for a woman’s life rather than a man’s 

Those who don’t fall into the typical wife model are usually labeled as a societal outcasts 

The representation of a woman’s body image often plays a huge role in the portrayal of women in dramas 

Outro 

We hope you enjoyed our podcast and will think about how women are depicted in drama as we did. Women often are not represented enough in drama and when they are, they are seen as crazy or labeled to be something they are not.