Why are soap operas watched more by women than men?

Soap operas were generally aimed at women since the 1930. Reason being because in those days’ women usually spent most of their time at home doing house work therefore watched the T.V more than men.

Also even the content of soaps appealed to women more than it would for a man this is because soaps would show strong female representatives for instance in Simpsons they would show the male characters as very silly and immature whereas you can see the female character more sensible this drew in the female audience’s even more.

As soap operas were generally aimed at women since the 1930’s the adverts the companies decide to put in were also aimed at women. The adverts that were normally shown in between the breaks were usually washing powder adverts or other things that would appeal to women.  

Women also enjoy watching things to do with relationships they also like the idea of a sensitive male representative.

Another reason  for why  soaps appeal more to women than men is because there normally very emotional and family based similarly to how most women’s life are; family based hence these sort of topics are familiar to women.

A typical soap Opera setting would most like be along the lines of , Some women slept with her close friends husband , a car crash or someone’s lost their job ect. These topics would most probably appeal to women because it’s very realistic and it could be happing in their own life as well. Also women like the idea of knowing about someone else’s life it gives them something to talk about.

These are some of the reasons for which I believe that soap operas are watched more by women rather than men. Because the storylines, adverts and characters are more appealing to a female audience rather than a male one.