You've come a long way, baby - from June Cleaver mopping floors to Murphy Brown topping Dan Quayle's agenda. Since the 1960's, TV women have moved out of the kitchen and into the boardroom, the courtroom, and the newsroom.
Kids realize it, too.
And when it comes to young girls on TV, they're right. There are roughly the same number of boy and girl characters on TV- and for the most part, no significant differences in the way they are portrayed in terms of their motivations and behaviors, although girls are more likely to show affection and boys are more likely to be aggressive. And nowadays, women on TV are better role models, too. They've landed the best pay, the best promotion, and the best punchline. And when it comes to adult women on TV, they remain far too few.