Gender bias in theatre.

Its not just in theatre - I wrote a short film script under the name "A V Malcolm" and submitted it to a TV station's short film initiative, they assumed I was a male and my script was shortlisted with other professional writers!! When I submitted the same script to our local funding body - they met with me, found out I was a middle-aged woman, and even with sudstantial re-writes, it was not deemed good enough for an emerging screen writers grant. Of course, one cannot prove it had anything to do with gender or age - but it was a very interesting experiment!