By Jennifer Ogunsola ·September 14, 2021 Updated
When Queen Sugar debuted six years ago, women directed 17 percent of all episodes of TVshows, according to the Directors Guild of America’s (DGA) Episodic Television Diversity Report. Coming from the world of film, where the numbers were equally dire, directorAva DuVernay flipped more than one script with the OWN series, which became one of the first TV shows to use female directors for every episode. Since 2016,