Support Healthy Media Images for Girls!
Urge Your State Legislator to Cosponsor S981
Senator Diane B. Allen is sponsor of a bill that would require the state Department of Education to encourage boards of education to offer instruction in media literacy.
In addition to the encouragement of education to demystify violent images, the bill also calls for a study regarding the feasibility of incorporating the instruction into the state curriculum.
Urge Your Member of Congress to Cosponsor H.R. 4925
Did you know...
- Nearly 90% of girls say the media places a lot of pressure on teenage girls to be thin
- Only 46% of girls think that the fashion industry does a good job of representing people of all races and ethnicities
- 55% of teenage girls admit they diet to lose weight and 37% know a girl with an eating disorder
(Girls & Body Image, 2010)
Girl Scouts worked closely with Congresswomen Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) to introduce the Healthy Media for Youth Act (H.R. 4925). This bill supports media literacy programs and youth empowerment groups, facilitates research on how images of women and girls impact youth, and establishes a National Taskforce on Women and Girls in the Media to develop voluntary standards that promote healthy, balanced, and positive images of girls and women.
Contact your U.S. Representative today and ask him or her to be a Voice for Girls and support H.R. 4925! Visit the Girl Scout Advocacy Network to create an email for your use, or customize it to share information about why this issue is important to you.
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