Media in fact influences women to run for office in strive for equal representation.Women’s Portrayal through the media in fact encourages them to stand against the status quo where media can be used as a motivating factor in their decision to run as a potential candidate. By approaching the media’s continuing negative bias as inspirational in itself, the media holds a counter effect by inspiring more women to gain interest and increase the number of women candidates for political representation.The discrepancy between the number of men versus women with political aspirations to shrink as the ever-increasingly large ranks of female college graduates begin their careers, the gap between male and female interest in political careers is present in women as young as high school…….