By watching soaps regularly women get to know the characters and their lives and this can be nice if women are not happy in what they are doing. It can give them inspiration and think to change their lives. Soaps can be a form of comfort to the woman watching the show as it is familiar and can form a routine to watch it.
Overall, television has been very successful in providing programmes for women. They have kept changing the programmes to fit in with the times and the role of women to show their increased role in the workplace and how they balance their role in the family with that in their work.
Specific programmes made for women such as Oprah and Ricki Lake are good because they provide useful information for women viewers and help them sort through problems they have.
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