If the decision-makers in the media are mostly men, that gives us an almost exclusively male perspective on things like sex, relationships and gender roles.

As a woman, I can say that many times the portrayals of girls and women in the media are unrealistic and seem to cater to male fantasies and egos.

Take Desperate Housewives, for example. Though I applaud the program for showing that women in their 30s and 40s can still be sexy, all of the lead actresses have extremely thin, toned bodies.

Hip-hop and rap videos often show scantily-clad women dancing and moving provocatively around fully-dressed male artists, who often refer to women in their music as "bitches" and "hos."

Even the video game Lara Croft: Tombraider, which might seem empowering to women because it features a female heroin, can also be considered derogatory.

Even successful and well-respected pop singers like Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera and Michelle Branch have posed provocatively in the men's magazine Maxim to help their careers.

When Don Imus, one of the country's most popular radio hosts, referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" two weeks ago, NBC and CBS pulled the plug on his show due to the public outrage that ignited.

Still, for a great deal of progress to be made, more women need to take on roles as producers, directors, editors and screenwriters. As the saying goes, "It matters who makes it."

I would hope that if more women took on top positions in the media, we would see more realistic and empowering representations of women and girls.

They should consider whether the images of women their companies produce are objectifying and reinforce harmful stereotypes that women have fought so hard to overcome.

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