Power shifting

November 28, 2007 "Try to find a woman in a contemporary movie in the last few years who didn't have a job that wasn't girlie," says producer and former United Artists president Lindsay Doran. If you were a Martian and you looked at American movies, you would think 80% of the women in America write for magazines -- they write for magazines, they are food critics, they are artists, some of them are musicians. "Over the past decade, you've had a real change," says Nikki Rocco, president of distribution at Universal Pictures.

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