Support the Healthy Media for Youth Act
The media often sends the wrong messages to girls. Airbrushed models, few quality leading roles for girls in television and movies, and degrading images of females in music videos are too often the norm. These images can chip away at a girl’s self-confidence and severely impact her body image. The need for more positive images of girls in the media is clear.
You can lend your voice to girls by showing your support of the Healthy Media for Youth Act (H.R. 4925). which was introduced last Spring by Congresswomen Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin and Shelley Moore Capito from West Virginia, with support from Girl Scouts of the USA. This bill is the Confidence Coalition’s official “call to action.” The Confidence Coalition has endorsed this legislation and is committed to building support for the bill on Capitol Hill and across the country. The Healthy Media for Youth Act will help girls and young women see themselves in a new and stronger light.
The Healthy Media for Youth Act (H.R. 4925) 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.
For details on the Healthy Media for Youth Act (H.R. 4925), visit www.girlscouts4girls.org.