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The table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...
The woman's films that were produced in the 1930s during the Great Depression have a strong thematic focus on class issues and questions of economic survival whereas the 1940s woman's film places its protagonists in a middle- or upper-middle-class world and is more concerned with the characters' emotional, sexual, and psychological experiences ...
800 women operatives and 4,000 workmen marched during a shoemaker's strike in Lynn, Massachusetts. 1863 (United States) The first railroad labor union, The Brotherhood of the Footboard (later renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) is formed in Marshall, Michigan. [6] It is headed by William D. Robinson. [16] 1864 (Europe)
The Big Operator (1959 film) Billy Elliot; Bitter Rice; Black Fury (film) Blood Feud (1983 film) Blue Collar (film) Boxcar Bertha; Brassed Off; Bread (1986 film) Bread and Roses (2000 film) Brothers (1929 film) Business as Usual (film)
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1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Pages in category "1940s feminist films" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Woman of the Year
During the mid-1940s, with many of the men fighting in the Second World War, and many of the children evacuated to rural areas, women attained more financial responsibility and independence by having to work, and Gainsborough Pictures took advantage of this by providing films with powerful images of female independence and rebellion that resonated deeply with audiences.
Union Maids is a 1976 American documentary film directed by Jim Klein, Julia Reichert and Miles Mogulescu. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] [2] The film was based on the three women from Chicago in the labor history book Rank and File by Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd.