Femina Slater Stereotypes

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In the TV show Ugly Betty, Wilhelmina Slater is portrayed as selfish, conceited and mean. She has a high profile job as creative director at a fashion magazine called MODE. Throughout the show Wilhelmina Slater is depicted as someone who will stop at nothing to reach her goals. Many of the myths and stereotypes of working women can be applied to her character. According to Susan J. Douglas a lot of media tends to overrepresent how far women have come in the workplace. Meaning, in their professions they seem to excel an extreme amount, an amount that most women statistically will never be able to obtain. These shows seem to try and show that equality has been met for women in the workplace. (Fitzpatrick) Wilhelmina Slater already meets this overrepresentation category. She is a creative director at MODE, one of the top magazines in the country. A comparable real life magazine to MODE would be Vogue. Grace Coddington, Vogue’s creative director is worth an estimated 50 million dollars. (Forbes) Wilhelmina Slater throughout the show can be seen in her over the top apartment and office so the viewer can safely assume that she is making an extreme amount of money. …show more content…

Women in the workforce are portrayed as having to balance their careers and their family life. A lot of Media makes this look like impossible and Ugly Betty in no exception. Wilhelmina has no husband and one daughter, Nico. In episodes Nico is featured it is evident that she dislikes her mother because of the lack of interest Wilhelmina pays to her. Nico throughout the show is always away at boarding school. Case in point Wilhelmina has sacrificed her relationship with her daughter because she is too busy

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