Gender Stereotypes in Music: Current Reasearch Findings

• Men engaged in significantly more aggressive and dominant behaviour
• Men represented as independent, adventurous, unemotional and competent
• Stereotypical gendered occupations ( i.e males as firefighters/mechanics women as Cheerleader/Waitress)
• Women engaged in significantly more explicit, sexual and passive behaviour
• Women represented as objects of sexual advances or as eye candy
• Sex role stereotyping sand negative attitudes towards females
• Women more likely to be presented in provocative or revealing clothing
• Women portrayed as decorative objects that dance, pose and do not play instruments
• Reasearch findings not only restricted to the hip hop genre

Gender Representation

ROCK

performanced based - can be of concerts

close up of main performer

torn clothing

wild atmosphere

tatoos long hair

RnB

close up of main artist

alot of eye candy- normally women

Performanced and narrative- male and female

show wealth- clothing cars

Dance

close up of main artist

male and female performers

studio shot

performanced and concept based

Hip Hop

close up of artist

women on display as objects

Choreographed dancing

clothing expensive jewellery

Men in control of women just there for male pleasure (gaze)