The image above is just an example of a few Disney princess' which display just a few examples of how Disney has portrayed them as women and are all aspects that we intended to look into further.

To further investigate the research question, a group of students in my COMM111 class (including myself) reached out into the world wide web and looked into some research done by others on the same subject: what influence Disney has on children. More specifically younger females.

In one of our sources we found an example of how children chose to play with toys. A group of kids which included both boys and girls were given set objects after watching a set of Disney films. The little girls chose to play with the dolls and pink objects. The boys would try to sometimes play with the girls' toys, however the little girls didn't like this and were quick to dismiss the efforts made by the boys to involve themselves in the girls' play. The girls didn't think it was right for the boy's to be playing as part of their role playing with the feminine toys.

Here my group and I found that this wasn't so surprising, and that it was expected that the girls would want to play with girls with their girly toys. What did take us by surprise was the fact that the girls didn't want the boys to play with them.
So to reiterate  the actions of the girls role-playing with dolls was not surprising, it was their reaction to the boys wanting to be involved that was surprising.

This is a theme found in many current researchers and we believe Disney is taking this research into account when coming out with new movies. Making women more independent and their is a larger variety of races that come across in the newer Disney movies.

Gender representations in Disney films is a topic that is relevant to many children in this day and age. Disney portrays women in a very certain way and this effects the way that children believe the world works or how they are supposed to be in the world. Movies are influential because it is a way that children socialize and it's how they learn. Learn through observation.

Looking into what the exact effect Disney has on gender representations is and how this effects children. This is important to people just to make sure that parents or others are aware of what their children are watching and how what they see may influence what they think of the real world.


Fx News published an article about Disney Movies and how many parents think that they are high quality movies. And further goes on to explaining that Disney does in fact portray extreme gendered sterotypes. This article also talks about why women must be caring regardless of other aspects, but all men have to worry about is being strong. A message being relayed to children that men can't be emotional and women cannot fend for themselves.