Geena Davis, CFA'79, Hon.'89. Photo: BU Today
Geena Davis, CFA’79, Hon. ’99, spoke last night at the Friend’s of the Libraries Speaker’s Series sponsored by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
Aside from her Oscar-winning success, Davis is a concerned mother of a young daughter (she also has twin boys). She began The Geena Davis Institute On Gender in Media in 2004 to study and address the depiction of female characters in children’s media as well as the imbalance of male to female characters in many of the shows. A recent University of Southern California study sponsored by the Institute, found evidence of stereotypical portrayals of women and fewer speaking parts in relation to men in the 122 films examined. –Information from BU Today
