5 Female Directors...

1) Debbie Allen
Deborrah Maye “Debbie” Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities She is probably best known for her role as Lydia Grant in the hit 1982 TV series Fame.

Director
Girlfriends
Everybody Hates Chris
All of Us
Life Is Not A Fairy Tale
That's So Raven
The Jamie Foxx Show
A Different World
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Family Ties
Fame (1982 TV series)
Polly
Polly: Comin' Home


2) Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957 at Rourkela, India) is an Indian-born, New York-based film director and producer. Her production company is Mirabai Films.
She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India.[1]
She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.
She is awarded India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006

Filmography
Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Mississippi Masala (1991)
The Perez Family (1995)
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
My Own Country (1998) (Showtime TV)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
11'9"01 September 11 (Segment - "India") (2002)
Vanity Fair (2004)
The Namesake (2006)
Migration (2007)
New York, I Love You (Segment - "Kosher Vegetarian") (2008)
8 (Segment - "How can it be?") (2008)
Amelia (2009)
Shantaram (2009)

3) Wendey Stanzler
Wendey Stanzler is an American television editor and director from Flint, Michigan, where she was co-editor and associate producer of Michael Moore's documentary, Roger & Me in 1990. She also co-edited Moore's only fiction film, Canadian Bacon (1993). Stanzler was hired as an editor for Sex and the City and went on to be a guest director during the final season of the show. Stanzler has also edited for the NBC series, Ed and Now and Again. Stanzler currently is a regular director on the ABC series, Grey's Anatomy and has directed several episodes of Desperate Housewives also on ABC. She won the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Award twice: in 2004 for the Sex in the City Episode "American Girl in Paris-Part 2" and in 1990 for Roger and Me.

Television director
Sex and the City (1998)
episode 6.14 "The Ick Factor"
Monk (2002)
episode 5.16 "Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital"
episode 6.04 "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend"
Desperate Housewives (2004)
episode 2.11 "One More Kiss"
episode 2.21 "I Know Things Now"
episode 3.03 "A Weekend In the Country"
episode 3.08 "Children and Art"
episode 3.20 "Gossip"
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
episode 1.09 "Who's Zoomin' Who?"
episode 2.04 "Deny, Deny, Deny"
episode 2.10 "Much too Much"
episode 2.19 "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"
Love Monkey (2006)
episode 1.05 "The Window"
Six Degrees (2006)
episode 1.03 "A New Light"
Ugly Betty (2006)
episode 1.14 "I'm Coming Out"
Men in Trees (2006)
episode 1.13 "History Lessons"
Private Practice (2007)
episode 1.09 "In Which Dell Finds His Fight"
90210 (TV series) (2008)
episode 1.10 "Games people plays"

4) Gail Mancuso

Select TV work
30 Rock (2006–present)
Scrubs (2002–present)
Teachers (2006)
Living with Fran (2005)
Rodney (2005)
Joey (2004)
Two and a Half Men (2004)
The Tracy Morgan Show (2004)
Married to the Kellys (2003–2004)
My Big Fat Greek Life (2003)
Gilmore Girls (2001–2003)
Becker (2001–2003)
Reba (2001–2003)
Inside Schwartz (2001)
Three Sisters (2001)
Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place (1999–2001)
Yes, Dear (2000–2001)
Dharma & Greg (1997–2001)
Ellen (1997–1998)
Friends (1995–1999)
Roseanne (1991–1996)

5) and we have to mention...Gurinder Chadha!
Gurinder Chadha, OBE, (born 10 January 1960) is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the UK. She is most famous for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).

Filmography
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Paris, je t'aime (2006) segment "Quais de Seine"
The Mistress of Spices (2005) (screenplay only)
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
What's Cooking? (2000)
Rich Deceiver (1995), BBC two-part drama
A Nice Arrangement (1994)
What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny? (1994)
Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
Acting Our Age (1992)
Pain, Passion and Profit (1992) (V)
I'm British But... (1990) (TV)