Write a literature review on Stereotypical depiction of women in pakistani dramas with citation and references of 4 articles.
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This paper seeks to demonstrate the representation of a "perfect" woman and explores the specific stereotypes for good women and bad women in Pakistan television dramas. This study is based on the premise that these popular dramas play a significant role in shaping attitudes and beliefs of the society. The study involved qualitative content analysis of six television drama serials of three popular Pakistan entertainment television channels through purposive random sampling. The study revealed that the stereotypes for "perfect women" in Pakistan television drama serials reinforce patriarchal system of Pakistan. They portray the lead women role as younger, ultra-slim, extra ordinary beautiful, wearing national simple dresses with "dupatta", less educated, mostly belonging to middle class, humble, home bound and submissive. If these women must work, then they do only for financial reasons. It was also observed that stereotypes for side role women are mostly projected the characteristic of being bold, outspoken, highly modern, educated, career oriented who mostly belong to elite class wearing modern and western kind of dresses. Those characteristics highlight them as "imperfect women", This paper makes a contribution to gender and media studies because it deals with neither gender discrimination nor gender equality rather it emphasizes on the representation of women versus women and compares the characteristics of women depiction in drama serials