I hate when people say that there are not enough female directors...

I thought gender was a matter of choice nowadays. Maybe some of these male directors identifies as women.

You're absolutely right about the matter of interest.
But it's also true that people are impatient and expect everything to happen overnight.
The world has opened up for everyone but it takes time for those that are interested to journey their way up to be qualified for some of these interest.

i mostly agree.

one of the more interesting statistics regarding gender disparity in careers is that, in countries where women are the most free, we see the greatest disparity in career choice.

for example, the scandinavian countries, the most equal, progressive-minded countries in the world, have fewer female stem grads than less free countries. it seems to be the case that, when women are free to choose what they want, they don't select computer programming or engineering, and that is perfectly fine. we're all entitled to our preferences, & it seems very likely to me that obsessing about movies to the extent you become a director may be one of the things women care about a lot less than men.

if there's some ingrained bias that prevents women from becoming directors, then someone ought to do something about that, but it seems to me far more likely that men just care more about such things. i was watching a yt video from one of those movie wonks recently, & he said his yt audience is about 97% men, & that doesn't seem too far off from what i've observed myself.

there are lots of things worth working for, all kinds of unfairness & injustice that people could help if they put their time & money towards sorting it out. people freely choosing to not do something isn't one of them, i reckon.

People need to say there are not enough GOOD movies.

It's the same as there being more female nurses than male one's, It's just what either gender tends to gravitate towards.

I definitely think there's something odd about correlating gender with occupation. However, I don't think the issue is that there are not enough female directors specifically, but the disparity between the genders in a field that does not call for a specific gender is odd.

Also, the idea that certain genders simply gravitate towards certain occupations or job fields is very grey imho. I don't consider these choices biological or accidental. If you've ever read any work by Germaine Greer, for example, she's been addressing this issue since the 1970s.

documentary about this issue, watch it and all your questions will be addressed https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5713994/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

I genuinely wonder how many women want to direct what passes for entertainment these days. Does a woman want to direct a John Woo type movie, or another Batman, Superman, comic book movie? And how many female Kubrick's are out there? Even if we have a successful female director or three, every director has to create a body of work that commands an investment in their future. This isn't easy for anyone.
That said, we have had gender disparity in a lot fields, and it should continue to be addressed.