Have Women Directors Come A Long Way, Baby? By Victoria Sampson

[From The Caucus Journal/Summer 2006]

The short answer is, “No.” This article is an invitation to explore,“Why?”

In a 1990/1991 DGA News magazine article Nell Cox, a television director (L.A. Law, Konrad, M*A*S*H) recalled a question she posed ten years earlier regarding how few role models existed for women directors. It was the 1980s when the first statistics on women in key roles in Hollywood came out.They were grim. “We know how hard it is for men to become directors in Hollywood,”said Cox. “Do we dare plan a career hoping to be among the nine-tenths of one percent of the women? The answer is yes, because we expect these figures to change.” That was over 20 years ago and the figures haven’t changed. They’ve gotten worse.

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