Here’s a bizarre fact: more women go to the movies than men, yet in Hollywood last year, women comprised a mere 4 percent—yes, that’s a single-digit—of the directors of the year’s top-grossing films. It gets worse. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, women accounted for only 11 percent of writers, 3 percent of cinematographers, and 14 percent of editors involved in top-grossing movies. (Take a moment here to grab your nearest pillow and scream into it.)

When it comes to the paucity of women in leadership roles, Hollywood is even slightly worse than Silicon Valley, where women make up only 7 percent of the partners at top venture-capital firms. Hollywood is so bad at giving women opportunities in the film industry that Kathryn Bigelow remains the only woman ever to win the Academy Award for best director. (Only four women have ever been nominated.)

Given this appalling history, it makes sense that people have been so excited by the recent release of Wonder Woman, which was directed by Patty Jenkins. Besides the fact that the movie is amazing (I chewed my nails through most of it), it has also proved to be a huge financial success. The film has grossed almost $500 million at the box office in just 14 days—a figure that one hopes will persuade studio heads to solicit more female directors for the superhero genre.

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I sat down with Jenkins for this week’s Inside the Hive podcast to discuss show business’s gender inequality, and how to change it. We also talked about how to approach directing a $150 million film, what she does when male executives “mansplain” things to her (hint: she “mansplains” right back), and what she wants to achieve next.