The media often defines the times we live in. When you watch a movie or read a book you feel transported back to the time when it happened. Films shown in theaters reveal information about our society that we are not well aware of. We live in a world where there are more women in Congress than behind the camera, this is shocking and quite upsetting. Whereas the number of women in Congress is quite small, the number of women in film is even smaller. The media seems to have a stronger impact on people than in the past, which is a shame. Women find themselves disproportionate to the women shown on screen and in magazines and therefore feel the need to change themselves. By increasing the amount of female workers in the media, the portrayal of degrading and one-sided female characters can be silenced through women's perspectives. Women portrayed on screen are usually directed to act more defiant and one-sided. , compared to how real women behave. Erin Hatton, a professor at the University of Buffalo, decided to study the covers of Rolling Stone magazines from the 1960s to today. Hatton found from his studies that in all covers from 1960 to today only 2% of men and 61% of women were hypersexualized. While it is perfectly acceptable to have images of women who can be described as "sexy", it becomes a problem "when women are seen as passive objects for someone else's sexual pleasure". Commercials use women's bodies to sell products by appealing to the male eye. TV and film director Mike White finds it feminizing to see a film with a female protagonist, unless "Angelina Jolie is shooting people... or something in the Mike White male sphere." find... middle of the paper... EO said he would stop making films with female contracts because they didn't do as well at the box office, but that's because CEOs like him don't provide a big enough budget for female directors trying to direct these films. Sony currently has its first female CEO, which is a huge achievement for women in cinema, but Sony films are still dominated by films starring men is a risk and giving female directors and writers a chance to prove they are as capable as men to make a successful film. There is still a lot of room for improvement for women behind and in front of the camera. Representations of women in cinema are often degrading and one-sided. To present this representation more realistically and respectfully, more producers, directors and writers need to join forces and show their perspective of women on screen..