Masoumeh Seifi Divkolaii - Member of Young Researchers Club of Qaemshahr, PhD Student in Media a management, Imam RezaInternational University, Mashhad, Iran
Ebrahim Fayaz2 - Assistant professor of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
Hasan Khojasteh3 - Faculty of the University of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

This article is meta-analysis of five articles about women and media. Several researchers have attempted to study issues related to women and media in light of sociology and assess the contributing factors and consequences. This meta-analysis is an attempt for reanalyzing collection of studies in this area and identifying their strengths and weaknesses. The results of this meta-analysis demonstrated that the effect size of gender stereotypes on women representation was medium 0.231. On the basis of the literature review and also the results of this meta-analysis, some solutions with regard to improving women representation were presented. This includes some intervention in individual and social factors

Representation, media, gender stereotypes, meta-analysis