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As others have said, I think women have done well in art compared to politics and other areas.
But when you're talking about "greatness" in art, you're really talking commercial success. Which means a woman isn't just facing obstacles on the way up, they're facing them on the consumer end. I would imagine if there were two identical movies, or books, but one had a female author/director and the other a male, the latter would sell better. Female artists don't have the benefit of the "coolness" factor that ethnic minorities might (in some genres). Their work would be perceived as more feminine, which isn't a great selling point for anything but feminist works.
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