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Count the number of women in the [[Producers]] section, and you'll see that television is still a very male-dominated industry. Writer's Guild of America (West) claims that only 27 percent of film writers and 19 percent of television writers it represents are female.
Naturally, as a consequence, the male voice is greater represented in media than the female voice, and the audience respectively will be assumed primarily male. Main character ensembles will typically be composed of primarily males, with a [[Token Girl]] thrown in for good measure. Due to people usually understanding their own gender better than the other, said girl tends to be based on relatively stereotypical notions. Thus, [[The Chick]] is a prevalent character type. Being unable to develop characters of a different gender as well as characters whose gender matches the writers', many times the female characters end up being [[Flat Character]] [[Damsel in Distress]] types. This also explains the presence of characterisation tropes such as [[Lineage Comes From the Father]] or [[Never a Self
A major effect of having male writers in greater proportion than female writers is that [[Fan Service]] tends to be skewed towards the male audience. The female character(s) are more likely to appear in [[Stripperiffic]] gear and have large breasts, (even when it sharply bends [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]) than the male characters are to receive a [[Shirtless Scene]]. Many times, the [[Token Girl]] will be used primarily as an intentional [[Ms. Fanservice]], while [[Mr. Fanservice]] tends to be less blatant. When a man has the power to get some of the most beautiful women on the planet to pole dance, he generally tends to use it.
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Very much inverted when one gets into fanfictions - [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]]. Thus the number of shipping stories regardless of the genre of the original material.
One of the major causes of [[Men Are Generic, Women Are Special]]. Caused by [[Write What You Know]]. See also [[Most Gamers Are Male]] and [[Girl Show Ghetto]]. For another type of disproportionate representation in media, see [[You Have to Have Jews]].
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