Gender pluralism and sexual diversity in the Chilean television Pluralismo de género y diversidad sexual en la televisión chilena

Abstract

© 2018 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. All rights reserved. This paper collects the results of a research conductedfortheChileanNationalTelevision Council on respect for gender equity and diversity in Chilean television programs. We implemented a device to identify, on a sample of 167 TV person/characters, the recurrence of stereotypes, which confirmed the persistence of inequalities and gender representational biases. The research concludes that the representations and stereotypes present in the corpus, far to being limited to reproducing images and common meanings circulating in society, produce meanings that are contradictory with the advances of the social discussion about this topic.