TV & Movies
Gender Stereotypes Are Messing with Your Kid
Gender stereotypes are messing with your kid. It’s not just one movie. It’s not just one TV show. It’s constant exposure to the same dated concepts in the media over and over, starting before preschool and lasting a lifetime — concepts like: Boys are smarter than girls; certain jobs are best for men and others for women; and even that girls are responsible for their own sexual assaults. If you thought this stuff went out with Leave It to Beaver, the new Common Sense Media report, Watching Gender: How Stereotypes in Movies and on TV Impact Kids’ Development, will put you right back in June Cleaver’s kitchen. Read More…
Spirited Away
(as recommended by Mighty Girl)
Spirited Away is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world. Read More…
SciGirls
(as recommended by Common Sense Media)
Parents need to know that this exciting educational series strives to change how girls view traditionally male fields like engineering and technology by introducing viewers to real tween girls who are using their science prowess to explore — and sometimes change — the world. Read More…
Bend It Like Beckham
(as recommended by Mighty Girl)
Sometimes, to follow your dreams, you’ve go to bend the rules! Audiences and critics alike are cheering wildly for this “exhilarating terrific comedy” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young girl who is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field. Read More…
Word Girl
(as recommended by Common Sense Media)
Parents need to know that this entertaining animated series introduces grade-schoolers to the pronunciations and definitions of advanced vocabulary words like “temptation,” “gigantic,” and “vegetarian.” Read More…
Girl Rising
(as recommended by Mighty Girl)
Girl Rising is a groundbreaking film, directed by Academy Award® nominee Richard Robbins, which tells the stories of 9 extraordinary girls from 9 countries, written by 9 celebrated writers and narrated by 9 renowned actresses. Girl Rising showcases the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. Read More…
Positive Role Model TV for Girls
Finding positive role models for girls on TV isn’t as easy as it should be. But if you dig a bit, you’ll uncover a few gems that will show girls and women in a positive light. Sometimes you’ll need to employ the DVD player or stream older shows that have gone off the air. (as recommended by Common Sense Media) Read More…
Real Women Have Curves
(as recommended by Mighty Girl)
Should Ana leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister’s struggling garment factory? It may seem like an easy decision, but for 18 year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life. Read More…
Annedroids
(as recommended by Common Sense Media)
Parents need to know that Annedroids casts a tween girl as a science genius who loves to solve problems using her expertise in engineering and computer programming. She’s also happy to share her knowledge with her friends, who then join her in exploring the possibilities of science. The kid-geared show sets out to inspire viewers’ interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects, and it incorporates many scientific concepts in each story. Read More…
Iron Jawed Angels
(as recommended by Mighty Girl)
Oscar-winner Hilary Swank stars in a fresh and contemporary look at a pivotal event in American history, telling the true story of how Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, a pair of defiant and brilliant young activists, took the women’s suffrage movement by storm in the 1910s, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote. Read More…
