Feminist theories...

Feminism is a social movement which has had an enormous impact on film theory and criticism. Cinema is taken by feminists to be a cultural practice representing myths about women and femininity, as well as about men and masculinity. Issues of representation and spectatorship are central to feminist film theory and criticism. Early feminist criticism was directed at stereotypes of women, mostly in Hollywood films (Haskell 1973/1987, Rosen 1973). Such fixed and endlessly repeated images of women were considered to be objectionable distortions which would have a negative impact on the female spectator. Hence, the call for positive images of women in cinema. Soon, however, the insight dawned that positive images were not enough to change underlying structures in film. Feminist critics tried to understand the all-pervasive power of patriarchal imagery with the help of structuralist theoretical frameworks such as semiotics and psychoanalysis.

http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/anneke/filmtheory.html

I do agree with this, because in many films women have been represented negatively. There have been many stereotypes associated with females, females have been portrayed as sex objects in films, on the other hand there have been some progress made by women in the film industry e.g. there are more action stars and females are taking some roles of males in films.