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Title Year Director(s) Topic(s) Summary Agora: 2009: Alejandro Amenábar: History: Bread and Roses: 2000: Ken Loach: Labour rights: Buddha Collapsed out of Shame
Tess McGill is a working-class woman from Staten Island who dreams of climbing the corporate ladder to an executive position. Despite holding a business degree earned through evening classes, her boss and male co-workers at the stockbroker firm in lower Manhattan where she works as a secretary treat her like a bimbo, even though they benefit from her intelligence and business instincts.
Women Make Movies (WMM) is a "non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women" based in New York City. WMM is a feminist media organization that focuses especially on the work of women of color. [76]
It commonly refers to the difference in pay between men and women in the industry. Women have often been paid less than men. There is also a difference in opportunities available between genders and representation of each gender within the media. This is a list of how gender inequality is commonly manifested.
In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers awarded the film two out of a possible four stars and commented, "Any similarities between Josey and Lois Jenson, the real woman who made Eveleth Mines pay for their sins in a landmark 1988 class-action suit, are purely coincidental. Instead, we get a TV-movie fantasy of female empowerment glazed with soap opera ...
The #MeToo movement has helped expose sexual harassment in the workplace, but the difficulties that women face on the job are by no means limited to unwanted advances or inappropriate remarks ...
"Movies about the workplace resonate with audiences because -- even though we may not have it as bad as some characters, and we may never climb as high as others ...
Kit (Rain Phoenix), Brownie's main daughter, chides the woman for not meeting her in the chapel for their usual sexual relations. A fight breaks out between Treasure and Kit that results in both being placed in solitary confinement. While confined, Brownie speaks through a wall telling Treasure that they should meet once she is released.