| With the continuous advancement of times and upgrading of technologies, female of various countries including the developing countries begin to awaken. Consequently, the social status of women around us is improving significantly and the social behavior between women and men is getting closer and closer. Moreover, women also begin to occupy important positions in different social field, play to their strengths women and achieve admirable work performance. However, we have to admit that the remnants of the feudal thought that "men are superior to women" and "men work outside while women work at home" have not completely eliminated in actual life, and they are still potentially dominating and influencing people’s social behavior, which should arouse our concern and reflection.Faced with this substantial inequality, how do the mass media reflect this inequality? The media has the function of reflecting the reality to show the women in real life, however, does the female image constructed by the mass media reflect the characteristics of women in real life truly and objectively? This paper aims to explore the ins and outs of the female image constructed by the mass media through analyzing the female image in social news of the Chutian Metropolis Daily.The first chapter introduces the theoretical basis in the field of "media and gender" in the papers. The second chapter analyzes the female image in the Chutian Metropolis Daily and meticulously analyzes the news contents of Chutian Metropolis Daily from2008to2011from three levels of contents, features and stereotypes. The third chapter concludes that there are gender stereotypes in the female image in the social news of Chutian Metropolis Daily; there is "stereotyped" tendency in shaping the female image of various age levels; and hence there is a certain gap between the female image presented in the news and reality. The fourth chapter explains the reasons for the existence of stereotypes in the female image shaped by Chutian Metropolis Daily. Finally, the author puts forward his own proposals on how to improve the female stereotypes in the news of Chutian Metropolis Daily. |
