There's a lot of stuff in there, and I'll assume you ask questions in good faith.
Is there a problem with any of the above ? Yes, there is. It's not of the same scale, the number of female truck drivers have little impact on our comprehension of the world, but the number of female secretaries certainly have for many years. I don't know for the States, but you are Québécois - in Québec, employers have access to subventions in certain male-dominated fields for hiring women. Why is that? Now there's a whole other discussion to be had to why it is that way that has nothing to do with cinema, but it's still a problem for many kiddos who dream differently.
Why is that indeed ? Are those subventions really needed in 2020 in Québec ? And why are there not subventions for men in female dominated fields ?
Now I really have to refrain from rudeness here... Such as? You'd say there's characteristics in men that make them better to collect garbage (such as physical strenght) and I'd still think that's dumb (I'm a basketball coach and 90% of my girls would break you in half ;-) ). But now you're going in the direction of creativity, leadership, intelligence, that's a very dangerous path to go through.
If you say so.
So when I say some characteristics of what makes a good director I'm thinking more of men possessing certain character traits more often then women, and vice versa.
I found this article to be quite interesting balancing both sides of the equation :
Taking this approach, the researchers actually found gender differences for every one of the 10 aspects of personality that they looked at – women scored higher, on average, on enthusiasm, compassion, politeness, orderliness, volatility, withdrawal, and openness, while men scored higher on assertiveness, industriousness and intellect.
Do men and women really have different personalities?
And so no one confuses intelligence with intellect... I added the defintiion of intellect below to avoid painful conversations :
Intellect is a
trait that describes a person's preference for imagination, artistic, and intellectual activities.
At every point in the article they will say one study concludes this, another study concludes the opposite. The above excerpt is just one study. But overall the article is well balanced. My overall conclusion after reading the article is that it's almost impossible to scientifically determine whether these differences are biological or societal but there are differences between men and women in terms of character traits. And I especially like this part of the article :
At the same time, it’s worth noting that there is more to this issue than gossip magazine tittle-tattle. There is increasing recognition of the part played by our personality traits in influencing our life choices and mental wellbeing. A better understanding of how men and women differ in personality, and why, could help create equal opportunity for all, as well as more effectively combat mental health problems, many of which affect one gender more than the other – like levels of depression being higher among women, consistent with their scoring higher on average in neuroticism.
Before we play around with quotas and positive discrimination, I think it's important that we understand how much the difference in these personality traits influence our career choices. Personally, I don't think there needs to be subventions to have more male nurses in hospitals. It's the way things are, women are more interested in that field than men and there's nothing wrong with that. Sure, if there is a negative bias toward women being movie directors it should change, but too often well meaning people rush to judgement with little factual information and try to change the world ... for the worse.
I won't address that, but it's a thought that leads straight to incel or masculinism discourse and that's a bomb I have no time to diffuse.
whatever...
Pass them out on the street in the hope of recruiting others.
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