Kramer vs. Kramer & Prime Suspect
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In spite of the gains made by the women's movement toward gender equality in American life, true equality has not been achieved in many areas, including the economic sphere. Surveys show that women on average earn significantly less than male workers, and indeed more than this, that women are paid significantly less than men for the same work. The overall figure usually given is that women earn sixty cents for every dollar paid to a male worker. This is only one of the issues facing women in the workplace, issues generated by changing gender roles, social tensions as the makeup of the workforce changes, longstanding gender problems between men and women that are now brought to the fore in the work setting, and issues derived from the way women treat one another as well. The average American spends half his or her waking time at work and may be enmeshed in work for a much larger percentage of time than that. Work is how we define ourselves. Work is not how we escape from the pressures of society, however, for the workplace is a crucible where the various tensions in the larger social fabric are certain to come to the fore. The types of gender issues seen in the workplace today can are reflected in our popular culture in films such as Kramer vs. Kramer and Working Girl, and in television productions (and novels) such as Prime Suspect. Gender roles in Western societies have been changing rapidly in recent years, with the changes created both by evolutionary changes i
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as a picture of indecision and uncertainty, and her action in leaving therefore comes under that same cloud rather than standing as an assertive action by a woman making a choice of the workplace in which she will spend most of her time.
The husband in the film is forced to make the sorts of choices that women normally have to make, choices between work and home, between working hard and succeeding in the rat race or taking time off to care for a child. He experiences this different sort of lifestyle and learns what a woman faces, finding that his own work is slipping simply because he has to consider family first. The implication is that most men do not do this. They put work first and family second, and they do so in part because they know that there is a woman in the house who will do the opposite and so allow the men the luxury of competing at work.
The gender issues raised in the film Working Girl are oddly more complicated, oddly given the fact that the general plot of this film has been used hundreds of times before, and given the fact that a certain number of stereotypes are woven into the plot and are necessary to produce the comedy. There are a number of working women in this picture, and there are a number of ge
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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