It's important to have role models you can identify with. Recognizing and celebrating the achievements of female directors is important. When you don't include female directors in lists of great movies, when female directors don't win awards, it reinforces the idea that women are allowed to enter the industry, but they can never really thrive and succeed in the same way a man can. Scholarships and quotas help at the top of the funnel, but if the middle of the funnel is still awful and discriminatory you're just feeding more people into the meat grinder.