Role of media in portaying women in India

Abstract

Mass media is a prime stakeholder which transmits different sorts of messages to the larger level of society. It has a crucial role in terms of socialization process among the people. Human evaluation has witness about the contribution of Mass-media in mobilization of common people in different revolution throughout the globe. During Indian independence movement role of mass media too played a unique role to create a shape, the outlook about women through several audio-visual sources. In other words media is a way through which it demonstrates the challenges and obstacles faced by women in the society. The women are portrayed as a commodity in patriarchal society by the so called mass media in the era of post capitalism. The popular sorts of mass media such as cinema, advertisement, serials are showing the women as ‘Daily Content’ instead of a powerful and inevitable stakeholder of social development and prosperity. Therefore it can be attributed to domestic and social violation of women in everyday life. Whenever a woman is victimized then the media again put pressure by expositing her details address, name and physical description too. Till 50’s-60’s portrayed women as submissive, supportive and a home maker .