Um excerto no capitulo das artes:
«PRIORITIES AND GAPS - Within the arts and media, there are strong examples
of progress towards gender equality in production
and a significant body of work spelling out clearly the
detrimental impact of the way women and girls are
portrayed. However, there is no consensus on the major
change required to sustain a fundamental shift in the
current paradigm; the entertainment industry is ‘slow
to progress in creating compelling and complex roles
for females’.
In 2015 the LSE Commission on Gender Inequality
and Power recommended the formation of a UK-wide
standing committee tasked with addressing the flaws
in data and analysis and commenting publicly in
response to high-profile negative portrayals of women,
and this offers a positive mechanism for best practice.
More consistent gender expertise in the Department
for Culture, Media and Sport would support the
government to act across the cultural agenda and to
address the links between media images and coverage
and VAWG highlighted by the Leveson Report, which
concluded: ‘the images may reflect a wider cultural
failure to treat women with dignity and respect and/or
a practice which, intentionally or not, has the effect of
demeaning and degrading women».
