Gender representation in advertising: blog tasks

 1) Find three adverts featuring women that are from the 1950s or 1960s. Save the images to your Media folder as jpegs and then import them into your blog post. Hint: You may wish to look at car, perfume or cleaning products but can use any product you wish.

the 1st advert the ketchup bottle says even women  can open it shows  saying even women who inferior to men at  that time can open it.

the 2nd advert says 'the chef does everything other than cook that's what women  are for' says its women job to cook.

the 3rd advert saying cooking is the women job.


2) Find three adverts featuring women that are from post-2000. Save the images to your Media folder as jpegs and then import them into your blog post.

3) What stereotypes of women can you find in the 1950s and 1960s adverts? Give specific examples.  

washing adverts, cleaning advert, cooking adverts ( domestic adverts)

4) What stereotypes of women can you find in the post-2000s adverts? Give specific examples. 

women take more of a major role and not just domesticated things.

5) How do your chosen adverts suggest representations of gender have changed over the last 60 years?  men also have to take a domesticated role


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