Working Girl

There is a series of divisions in the office as presented in this film, divisions based on gender, divisions based on social class, divisions based on both at once. The office is set in New York City, where the class differences in the workplace always seem to be heightened, but there is a basic division between the executives and the plebeian workers who make up most of the office force, the secretaries, gophers, delivery boys, and so forth who do much of the "grunt" work while the executives develop projects, hold meetings, and also enjoy a fair number of perquisites. A large proportion of the lower echelon workers are women, secretaries with little opportunity for advancement except to become secretary to someone higher in the organization. This is the position the heroine finds herself in when she achieves just

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