Research studies concerning model gender-product interactions, female role setting depictions, and degree of liberatedness are reviewed and discussed. The communication effectiveness of role portrayals is found to be a function of model gender-product congruence, appropriate role setting, and liberatedness and realism of the portrayal. Implications for research and advertising practice are described.
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Whipple et al. (1985) studied this question.