director vs manageress

director and manageress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
director	Yes	No	No	No
manageress	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, manageress is a hyponym of director; that is, manageress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than director:

Other hyponyms of director include bank manager, district manager.

director (noun)	manageress (noun)
someone who controls resources and expenditures	a woman manager
the person who leads a musical group
someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
member of a board of directors
the person who directs the making of a film