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Gender Stereotypes and Representation of Women in Electronic Media: A Socio-Legal Analysis

Author(s) Dr. Wasim Ahmad
Country India
Abstract Contemporary India witnesses an unprecedented proliferation of electronic media platforms that wield formidable influence over societal consciousness, yet operate within a legal vacuum regarding gender representation. It is the constitutional paradox that the largest democracy in the world upholds substantive equality and allows women to be systematically dehumanized in the discourse of media. This paper uses stringent doctrinal examination cross-intersected with feminist jurisprudence to reveal the severe incompetency of the existing regulatory framework in India to counter what this paper theorizes as ‘representational violence’ the collective degradation of the dignity of the female gender through stereotypical representation in the media that contravenes constitutional ideals.
The research reveals that existing legal frameworks suffer from three critical deficiencies: constitutional blindness to media’s role in perpetuating systemic discrimination, statutory fragmentation that creates regulatory arbitrage opportunities, and judicial reluctance to recognize representational harm as cognizable injury. This analysis demonstrates that current self-regulatory mechanisms constitute a sophisticated form of regulatory capture, where commercial interests systematically override constitutional imperatives.
The argument of the paper is that the failure of India to formulate gender-sensitive media regulation is not just a lapse in policy, but a failure of constitutional responsibility, itself a betrayal of transformative constitutionalism in its promise to deconstruct structural inequality. Based on comparative constitutionalism and international human rights law, this paper advances a radical framework: constitutional media governance that would address representation as an issue of fundamental right requiring state interventions to safeguard the dignitary interests of women against the acts of media violence by private parties.
This contribution challenges the traditional approach to the criticism of media in that it has constructed doctrinal bases of law on the treatment of gender stereotyping as constitutional infringement and hence has additionally opened up new possibilities of transformative legal intervention in the media saturated democracy of India.
Keywords Transformative constitutionalism, Representational violence, Constitutional media governance, Gender equality jurisprudence, Regulatory capture
Field Sociology > Administration / Law / Management
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On 2025-08-27
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.54535
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9z3bb
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