Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, who won an Oscar for their last documentary American Factory are following it up with a breezy and informative archive-driven film highlighting the fight for women's equality in the workplace - a battle that the film makes clear is far from over.
The US 9to5 movement - which would go on to inspire the Jane Fonda comedy 9 to 5 - provides the film with a focal point as it zooms in as the Sixties ave way to the Seventies without any signs of improvement in terms of working pay and conditions for the women who made up 70% of that area's workforce. The situation in the office was a reflection of broader sexists attitudes in society. As one of the women interviewed here recalls her father telling her: "Girls who are walking encyclopaedias should remember that reference books are never taken out."
Women, broadly speaking,...
The US 9to5 movement - which would go on to inspire the Jane Fonda comedy 9 to 5 - provides the film with a focal point as it zooms in as the Sixties ave way to the Seventies without any signs of improvement in terms of working pay and conditions for the women who made up 70% of that area's workforce. The situation in the office was a reflection of broader sexists attitudes in society. As one of the women interviewed here recalls her father telling her: "Girls who are walking encyclopaedias should remember that reference books are never taken out."
Women, broadly speaking,...
- 11/11/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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