Filmmaking / Directing : Here's How Rare It Is For a Female Director to Be Nominated for a Golden Globe—Let Alone Win by Beth Fox Heisinger

I think you have to put it in context over time. Our society defined and handed out various roles for both men and women over the decades and centuries and during most of that time, we humans were reasonably satisfied with that situation. With a few rare exceptions, women weren't compelled to play roles in the sciences, mathematics, engineering or business... fields. It only been during the past decade or so that women have begun to flex their muscle - notably in the film industry - and while I, for one favor this trend but I also say that at the present only a few women have developed the time based skill/knowledge that it takes to be an award winning Director. But I'm also confident that more and more women will develop the necessary skill set fairly quickly.

Were I to debate this issue from the negative angle, I would make mention that the more that women scramble to reach the pinnacle, the more they abandon the social responsibility of maintaining the family values that are the underpinnings of civilized society today. Violence and crime run rampant presently and many women fear for their very safety. Might this be related to the removing of women from family nurturing - for economic or whatever reasons?

Anyway, I pledge my full support for the betterment of all.

Yup. And it is shocking. And unfair. Thinking that hundred of thousand women work in the industry and yet they are invisible. I come from the Oil and Gas industry. I worked in Offshore platforms. You would think I’d tell you similar stories of harassment and disrespect. Nothing like that. Even in such a male dominated field, I was only once mistreated. And it was my male colleagues who stepped up with me and showed discontent that a colleague wasn’t treated right. I was part of the “family” and as such had the same rights and obligations. Maybe filming industry is so competitive there is no real respect? Not even sure why it is so difficult for the industry to admit there is a problem. And not only for women. Different backgrounds struggle to find space. I read someone in Facebook complaining that there was an Asian looking character in Star Wars. And someone saying that the love story between the black male and white female characters was not believable. Maybe it is a broader problem than we think. But to make things changing we need to start from somewhere. And I am positive things will change.