Why are women directors a rare sight ?

5 Reasons:

1) Film is such a male dominated industry. If you know some one higher up then there's a better chance of you (women) getting promoted and established.

2) Women and mother-hood don't mix, if a woman has a baby it will be very hard to balance a directing life as well as a motherly maternal life.

3) If women became directors, the categories of "bitch", "mother" and "sex symbol" will be gone as women will start to give true representations of how women are.

4) There are not enough role models out there, for women to strive for and try to become, so therefore making it harder for women directors to break into the scene.

5) Women are better at writing rather than directing, so they can do the script bit however it seems that men are more creative.