For the past year, I have been the director/executive producer of Homeland season four on Showtime, which features one of television’s most complicated and compelling female characters. I love my job. I love being a storyteller and feel incredibly lucky to be working in this Golden Age of Television. But if someone had said to me when I started directing 20 years ago that in 2014 we would still be talking about the lack of employment of women directors, I would have said that’s impossible. Sadly, the stats are essentially the same as they were in 1994: In TV, women directors represent 14 percent and in film a meager 9 percent. With so many progressive areas of inclusion in our society, it is profoundly disappointing that our industry isn’t a leader in this area. Films schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren’t being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

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