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Vicki Power also mentions that the film "reminds us of her ground-breaking Beijing speech of 20 years ago in which she exhorted the world's leaders to treat women's rights as human rights". She wrote in The Daily Telegraph that "the film is an admirable consciousness-raising exercise pointing out that violations against women in the 21st ...
The Janes is a 2022 American documentary film. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2022, and was released on HBO Max on June 8, the month after a leaked draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was released, starting protests across the United States. [1] [2] The film was directed by Emma Pildes and Tia ...
9to5: The Story of a Movement is a 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar. The film revolves around 9to5, an organization established to improve working conditions and ensuring the rights of women and families. The film had its world premiere at AFI Docs on June 19, 2020.
Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
9. Marie Curie was the first person (and only woman) to receive two Nobel prizes. Curie was a scientist whose research on radioactivity led her to discover two new elements. She also researched ...
The film does include the significant contribution of Lesbian women to feminism, but it is noted that it missed an opportunity to include trans women. [1] Erika Voeller of Mpls MadWomen notes that the women of color in the documentary express frustration with balancing their multiple identities within the movement but that the documentary ...