Introduction

One of the best places to find inequalities and stereotypes present in and between genders is the media.  Interestingly, these stereotypes are seen and even heavily emphasized in children’s movies, including Disney films.  To examine this, we took a look at the movies Cinderella (1950), Tarzan (1999), and Mulan (1998), keeping in mind the work of Goffman and other sociologists studied in class, and analyzed their content regarding gender.  We found that all three movies, even those attempting to equate gender, reinforced the negative gender stereotypes of women as weak and men as dominant.