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To encourage girls and women to pursue STEAM careers, it is crucial to increase the positive representation of female role models in science. The study uses the Be- chdel test and an adapted Greimas Actantial Method to analyse mainstream films. Results show that female characters are often attractive, Caucasian scientists, not mothers, and play secondary roles above all. The most represented careers were in Biology, Astronomy, and Social or Human Behavioural Sciences. Representation of women in leadership positions in the STEAM sector in commercial movies is clearly deficient. Para animar a niñas y mujeres a seguir carreras STEAM, es crucial aumentar la representación positiva de modelos femeninos en la ciencia. El estudio utiliza el test de Bechdel y el Método Actancial de Greimas adaptado para analizar películas comerciales de gran audiencia. Los resultados muestran que los personajes femeninos suelen ser atractivas científicas caucásicas, no madres, desempañando papeles secundarios, sobre todo. Las carreras más representadas son Biología, Astronomía y Ciencias Sociales o del Comportamiento Humano. La representación de mujeres en puestos de liderazgo en el sector STEAM en las películas comerciales es claramente deficiente.
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Buelvas-Baldiris, T., & Rubira-García, R. . (2023). Female Leadership Portraits in Commercial Movies: Gender Social Representations from the STEAM Sector. VISUAL REVIEW. International Visual Culture Review Revista Internacional De Cultura Visual, 15(4), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.37467/revvisual.v15.4960

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