Guest Post: Why Are People Concerned Directing Is "Too Much" for Women? We Can Handle It, Thanks

Women and Hollywood: When I was a little girl my mother worked in an unheated factory five days a week and cleaned houses on weekends. Never once did anyone tell her, "Well, that’s too big a job for a woman." Nor was she told, "You need a self-sacrificing partner at home to do that job." She certainly never heard, "Oh, you can’t combine that with raising children."

People are always happy to hand a woman a mop, frying pan or sewing machine for a minimum wage job. They never ask if it'll be "too much" for her to handle.