Why are there so few female film directors?

https://www.criterion.com/films/27854-daisies

Great film! I saw Chytilová's follow-up The Fruit of Paradise but don't remember anything other than bewilderment.

My favourite film! Got to see it on the big screen a few times, the best was last year with a p raucous audience of mainly students who were v nonplussed but loved it

There's already an excellent blu-ray of this from Second Run, a label that's shown far greater commitment to East European cinema than Criterion. They also offer other Chytilová films:

https://www.secondrundvd.com/release_daisiesBD.html

Susan Seidelman memoir: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/desperately-seeking-something-9781250328212/

Criterion releasing an early Martha Coolidge film: https://www.criterion.com/films/33619-not-a-pretty-picture

That looks really interesting--amazed I've never heard of it. (Liked Valley Girl when it came out, also a rewatch years later.)