Geena+Davis


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=__//Geena Davis//__=

Born: January 21, 1956

You might know Geena Davis from some of the movies she has done, "Stuart Little" and "A League of Their Own" for example. You might not know that she is a founder of an organization called See Jane*. See Jane is an organization which points toward putting more female character roles in movies and television roles. The organization wants to make the roles in the movies equal between men and women. Davis started the foundation in 2004. She started with the Fathers and Daughters foundation. Which soon had her own section called See Jane. Through this she has earned the USA TODAY Hollywood Hero Award for her dedication to the See Jane organization. Along with adding more females to the film industry she would like to lower the amount of gender stereotypes we have. She wants to aim both adding more females and reducing the amount of gender stereotyping for children under 11 since that group is the most vulnerable. She has looked at many old shows, like Winnie the Pooh has nine characters and only one of them is female. not only does she focus he studies on young children, she sometimes does on older. For example when she did a pole with senior girls at a high school 78% were not happy with their bodies. When she asked them why almost all of them said that they did not look like the celebrities in television and magazines etc. She decided to start the battle of gender stereotypes when she was watching a show with her daughter. She was counting the number of male characters on her left hand and the number of female characters on her right. She soon ran out of left hands. She went through about three left hands before her right hand went on to its next. Her first study showed that in G-rated movies three out of four characters are male. After finishing with the G-rated analysis the See Jane organization has moved onto PG-13 movies.


 * If you want to know more about the See Jane organization go to [|http://www.seejane.org/]

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