These images of women also tend to be more highly sexualized than male roles: a scant 28% of characters in G-rated films are female and women are more than five times more likely to remove their clothes than their male counterparts on-screen. Thus, while some changes have occurred in terms of the ways that the genders comport themselves on film, much has remained the same in terms of how the media portrays women. Perhaps the most telling statistic in the Media Report article is the fact that women's roles in films directed by women dramatically increase: the number of female speaking characters jumps from 27% to 47% in female-directed films, indicating that so long as the film industry continues to remain dominated by males behind the camera, changes in screen images of women will be less flexible...

Until women begin to penetrate the film industry's upper echelons and gain more control of the medium as directors and screenwriters, women's narratives and voices will be rendered subordinate to the male gaze, particularly in the large-budget, high-quality Hollywood films that receive more financing and exposure in theaters.
Article review III

Mularczyk, Ewa. (2006). Review of America on Film. By Harry Benshoff & Sean Griffin.

Media Magazine. 144.

According to Ewa Mularczyk's review of America on Film, by Harry Benshoff & Sean Griffin, while gender roles may be socially constructed, they can still exercise a powerful bias in terms of the way the media renders such images. Furthermore,