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The Institute has spent over two decades conducting extensive research on the portrayal of diverse populations. This research serves as a cornerstone for informing and guiding content creators and decision-makers toward more inclusive storytelling practices.

Seventy Years of Fifty-Plus Actors at the Emmys Gender Gaps in Nominees and Winners

A Smiling Little Girl Doing a Thumbs up

India Advertising Midline: Gender Representation and Inclusion Trends

A multigenerational group of five smiling Latina women and a young child sitting together on a couch against an exposed brick wall background.

Twenty Years of Representation in Cannes Lions Film and Film Craft Shortlisted and Winning Work

Diversity people illustration concept shows people who have different ethnicity and they are smiling to each other and accept the difference of ethnicity

Body Representation and Portrayals in Children’s Television

A close-up shot of a person's hand passing a wrapped bright green pad or feminine hygiene product through a cracked-open bathroom door to another hand reaching from inside the stall.

Period Pieces: How TV Shapes Teens’ Understanding of Menstruation

Group of happy older black women at the cinema.

Missing in Action: Writing a new narrative for women in midlife on the big screen