Here's a fun fact to know and shout: Almost half the films written between 1912 and 1925 were written by women.
You can read about this long-ago Golden Age for the ladies in this essay: The Women Behind the Camera in Early Hollywood. It's only one part of The Fund for Women Artists' monthly newletter, which also includes its report card on this year's Oscars. The short version? Once again, women faced a celluloid ceiling, unless they were actresses. The long, stats-heavy version, complete with bar graphs, can be found here.
Poor Thelma must be lonely.
