Women at Work: Working Girl, Disclosure and the Evolution of Professional Female Stereotypes

Author

Hayley A. Strickland, Scripps CollegeFollow

Graduation Year

Spring 2014

Document Type

Open Access Senior Thesis

Department

Media Studies

Reader 1

Jennifer Friedlander

Reader 2

Nancy Macko

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Rights Information

© 2014 Hayley A. Strickland

Abstract

In this analysis, I examine how stereotypes of working women function in some of the most popular film and television shows made in past thirty years. A study of films such as Working Girl and Disclosure and television shows such Ally McBeal and Sex and the City within a second-wave and postfeminist framework ultimately reveals that Hollywood stereotypes of working women have evolved very little and simply become more creatively disguised.

Recommended Citation

Strickland, Hayley A., "Women at Work: Working Girl, Disclosure and the Evolution of Professional Female Stereotypes" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 386.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/386