women in unions • the double workday • invisible domestic work • domestic workers • exploitation and discrimination • women and multinationals • rural and indigenous women • nontraditional employment • job hazards • new technology
WORLDWIDE
Women on the Global Assembly Line (USA)
Film, 16 mm, 60 min., color, in English
Made by Lorraine Gray
Distributor: Educational TV and Film Center (USA)
This film explores the impact of transnational corporations on women's lives through documentary footage, interviews, and personal testimony of women workers from Mexico, the Philippines, and the United States. Focusing on the global textile and electronics industries, the film examines such themes as the exploitation of women workers in Third World free trade zones, violent police repression of the Philippine workers movement, and the effects of plant closings on U.S. communities. Effective with both uninformed audiences and those directly involved in the struggles it portrays.
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
We Carry a Heavy Load (Zimbabwe)
Slideshow, in English
Distributor: Zimbabwe Women's Bureau (Zimbabwe)
The slideshow depicts the work women in Zimbabwe do, from housework to farming.
The Price of Change (USA 1982)
Film, 16 mm, 26 min., color, in English
Made by Elizabeth Fernea and Marilyn Gaunt
Distributor: International Development Education Resources Association (IDERA Films) (Canada)
For 60 years Egyptian women have been gradually entering all sectors of the public work force. Work outside the home, once considered shameful, has today become a necessity. Today nearly 40% of Egyptian women contribute in some way to providing the family income. This film examines the consequences of work for five women – a factory worker with four children, a rural village leader involved in family planning, a doctor, a social worker, and a member of Parliament who is also speaker for the opposition party. The film presents a picture of changing attitudes to work, the family, sex, and women's place in society.
ASIA
We Thai Women (Thailand)
Slideshow, 20 min., color, in Thai and English
Made by Siriporn Skrobanek for Friends of Women Group and Women's Information Center
Distributor: Women's Information Center (Thailand)
This slideshow depicts the struggle of the 80% of Thai women who live in rural areas, their life and work, and how traditional values affect women.
Children of the World
Film, in English
Made by UNICEF
Distributor: UNICEF (France)
Family life is depicted in a Korean fishing village, particularly the life of its women divers. Women there are still trained to be deep-sea divers like their mothers and grandmothers before them.
Judge Y. Mibuchi and the Family Court (Japan 1976)
Third in a ten-part series
Video, U-matic, 30 min., color, in Japanese, Chinese and English
Director: Haruko K. Watanabe
Producer: HKW Video Workshop
Distributor: HKW Video Workshop (Japan)
Judge Yoshiko Mibuchi, chief judge of the Family Court of Urawa in the Tokyo suburbs, defends the educational nature of the present Japanese juvenile law code. Judge Mibuchi says that she and her husband, a former judge, have lived separately one-third of their married life as they were assigned to different courts in various prefectures in Japan. She advises youth in the legal profession to pursue their own convictions.
Fuji Egami: Broadcast Journalist (Japan 1976)
Fourth in a ten-part series
Video, U-matic, 30 min., color, in Japanese, Chinese and English
Director: Haruko K. Watanabe
Producer: HKW Video Workshop
Distributor: HKW Video Workshop (Japan)
Fuji Egami, former director of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), talks about her experience as the pioneer broadcast journalist in women's and children's programs. She urges competent women journalists to move up into management so that they will have the power to pull other women journalists into responsible positions.
Kimiko Anno: Woman Scientist (Japan 1976)
Fifth in a ten-part series
Video, U-matic, 30 min., color, in Japanese, Chinese and English
Director: Haruko K. Watanabe
Producer: HKW Video Workshop
Distributor: HKW Video Workshop (Japan)
Dr. Kimiko Anno, president of the Society of Japanese Women Scientists and professor emeritus at Ochanomizu University, talks about her own education and reports the active participation of young Japanese women scientists at conferences abroad. She criticizes the lack of academic purpose in present women students and contrasts them with their motivated older sisters. She insists that the status of Japanese women scientists cannot be improved unless women change the educational system itself by participating in policy-making boards.
WOMEN IN UNIONS
Stand Tall and Straight (Philippines)
Slideshow, color, in English
Made by Center for Women's Resources
Distributor: Center for Women's Resources (CWR) (Philippines)
This slideshow tells the story of women on strike in the textile industry in the Philippines.
Tambaku Chakila Oob Aali (India)
(The Tobacco Is Ready to Ignite)
Film, 16 mm, 24 min., b/w, in Marathi and other Indian languages
Made by Yugantar
Distributor: Yugantar (India)
This film is a historical reconstruction of the struggle of women employed in the tobacco industry. It explores the preunion days, the formation of the union and the current issues facing them. It is a testament to and expression of the women's uncrushably militant will and spirit.
Molkarin (India 1980)
(Women Domestic Workers)
Film, 16 mm, 24 min., b/w, in Marathi and other Indian languages
Made by Yugantar
Distributor: Yugantar (India)
This film documents the struggle of women domestic workers in Poona city when they decided to stage a strike for better wages and employment benefits. The strike lasted for a week and some of the women workers' demands were granted. This experience of participating in a collective action has raised their level of consciousness.
From Nothing to Something (Hong Kong)
Slideshow, 25 min., color, in English
Made by Christian Industrial Committee
Distributor: Christian Industrial Committee (Hong Kong)
This slideshow tells the story of a woman garment worker and her struggle to win maternity rights in the workplace.
MULTINATIONALS
The Long Chain (1972)
Film, 16 mm, 20 min., b/w, in English
Distributor: Tricontinental Film Center (USA)
In this film women workers from rural southern India describe how they were brought in to work on the construction of the U.S.-owned First National Bank and the Sheraton Hotel. Paid only fifty cents a day, they will be turned out onto the streets once the job is finished.
A Woman Like Yasawathie: Coir Workers in Sri Lanka
Documentary film, 16 mm, 25 min., color, in English and Dutch
Made by Carla Risseeuw and Emmy Scheele
Distributor: Voorlichtingsdienst Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (VDO) (Netherlands)
Along the entire southwest coast of Sri Lanka landless women ropemakers work for village merchants, transforming coconut fiber into rope. This product is sold by the merchants to the exporters and big businesses in Colombo. The largest buyers are Western European, Japanese and U.S. companies. This film tries to give a picture of the women workers' lives behind this network of vested economic interests, by following Yasawathie's day both at home and in the rope making.
Women in Production (Philippines)
Slideshow, 15 min., color, in English
Made by Development Education Media Service Foundation (DEMS)
Distributor: DEMS (Philippines).
This slideshow describes the overall situation of Filipina women workers and examines the barriers to their participating in consciousness-raising activities and challenging their present status in the Philippine society.
After the Difficulties: Working Women in Southeast Asia (Canada 1982)
Slideshow, 20 min., in English
Made by Souad Sharabani and Helene Klodawsky
Distributor: Development Education Center (DEC) (Canada)
This slide montage on working women in Southeast Asia addresses both the personal and political aspects of social change. The slideshow focuses on the many young women employed in textile and electronics factories in Southeast Asia today.
Seirl (Hong Kong)
Film, 8 mm, 30 min., color, in English
Made by Christian Industrial Committee
Distributor: Christian Industrial Committee (Hong Kong)
This film describes the relationship between a garment worker and her family in Hong Kong.
Story of Ah Jen (Hong Kong)
Slideshow, 15 min., color, in English
Made by Christian Industrial Committee
Distributor: Christian Industrial Committee (Hong Kong)
This slideshow tells the story of a primary school drop-out who goes to work in a factory.
AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
Working for Your Life (1980)
Film, 16 mm, 60 min., color, in English
Made by Andrea Hricko and Ken Light in association with Labor Occupational Health Project
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
A film examining occupational health hazards for women workers across a wide range of industries. It highlights the struggle of women who are trying to improve their working conditions by forming safety committees at their work places and how they are demanding information about the materials they work with.
Don't Be Too Polite, Girls (Australia 1976)
Film, 16 mm, b/w, 15 min., in English
Made by Martha Ansara
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
This documentary was shot in a Sydney appliance factory during a lunchtime performance by the Melbourne Women's Theatre Group of their Women and Work Show. It looks at women in the paid workforce and their dual roles of worker and housewife.
Dirt Cheap (Australia 1980)
Film, 16 mm, 88 min., color, in English
Made by Marg Clancy, David Hay, and Ned Lander
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
This film is a documentary feature about the current resources boom in Australia, particularly uranium mining. It refutes the claim that mining is "in the national interest" and shows who really gains and who loses when Australian uranium and other minerals are developed by multinational mining companies. The implications and consequences of this for aboriginal women living on their own land, white women in mining towns, and white working women down south are an integral part of the analysis of the film. There are a number of strong women characters in the film and we get a clear and positive sense of their daily lives.
Working with Childcare (Australia 1978)
Film, 16 mm, 20 min., color, in English
Made by Carolyn Dartnell
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
Made for the Women's Trade Union Commission, this film gives case histories of four families with two working parents and their solutions (or lack of solutions) to the problem of childcare.
Factory Friday (Australia 1979)
Film, 5 min., b/w, in English
Made by Helen Goldberg
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
Factory Friday is about a day in the life of a group of migrant women working in a drug factory in Ultimo, Sydney. The women helped to determine how the film depicts their work.
They Treat Us Like Slaves (Australia 1978)
Video, 3/4 in., 15 min., b/w, in English
Made Jenny Neil and Pam Blacker
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
An interview with migrant women workers about the conditions in which they are expected to work, their relationship with their union and the special problems associated with being both a woman worker and a migrant in Australia.
Working Up (Australia 1980)
Documentary film, 16 mm, 52 min., color, in English
Made by Maureen MacCarthy and Chris Warner
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
A documentary portraying nine women working in what have traditionally been male occupations, this film is designed to stimulate discussion about all aspects of women's employment: child rearing, discrimination, technological change, and the role of unions. It places these issues in a wider social context while at the same time encouraging women to widen their own horizons regarding acceptable employment options.
There's Always a First (New Zealand)
Video, 20 min., in English
Made with the assistance of the Department of Labour and the New Plymouth YWCA
Distributor: YWCA of New Zealand (New Zealand)
This video features seven women in nontraditional jobs. The women involved are a coach painter, a cabinet maker, a truck driver, a glass blower, a linesperson and two welders. In interviews each woman explains how she got her job, what is involved (e.g. apprenticeships, qualifications, polytech courses) and how she likes what she is doing. Most of the women are in their late teens or early twenties and the video may be used to encourage school leavers and young women to consider training for nontraditional jobs.
The Best Man for the Job May Be a Woman (Australia 1980)
Film and video, U-matic, 3/4 in., 13 min., color, in English
Made by Mandy King
Distributor: Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative (Australia)
This documentary examines how a number of Australian women gained access to a traditionally male-dominated area of work - truck driving in the postal industry. The film focuses on the role of anti-discrimination legislation, the fight for equal opportunity and the role of unions in promoting fair hiring practices for women.
EUROPE
Robotnice (Poland 1980)
(Women Workers)
Film, 16 mm, 17 min., b/w, in Polish
Made by Irena Kamienska
Producer: Warsaw Studio of Documentary Film
Distributor: Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir (France)
Produced during the peak of the Solidarity movement, this film depicts working conditions for women employed in a Polish textile factory.
Produrre e Riprodurre (Italy 1983)
(Producing and Reproducing)
Video, 1/2 in., (VHS), 28 min., color, in Italian
Made by Gruppo Comunicazione Visiva - Genoa
Distributor: Gruppo Comunicazione Visiva (Italy)
A critical overview of the proceedings of the International Conference of Women from Industrialized Countries organized by the Turin women's movement in April of 1983, this video preserves the original vitality of the conference debates and workshops, celebrating the informal, imaginative and often chaotic atmosphere created by the meeting's participants.
Les Blanchisseuses (France 1983)
(Washerwomen)
Film, 16 mm, 27 min., color, in French
Made by Josyane Serror
Distributor: Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (France)
Describes working conditions for women in the industrial washing and bleaching industry.
Meiden en Werk (Netherlands 1982)
(Women and Work)
Sony U-matic, 35 min., b/w, in Dutch
Made by Yvonne van Nes
Distributor: Kaktus Vrouwenvideokollektief (Netherlands)
Four women from different professions (a secretary in a hospital, a bus driver, a microbiologist and a woman working in a fashion boutique) talk about education, job hunting, work and unemployment.
Paroles d'Assistantes Maternelles (France 1983)
(Women Maternal Health Workers Speak)
Video, 3/4 in., 29 min., color, in French
Made by Aniko Marton, Dominique Blin-Basset and Carole Roussopoulos
Producer: French Ministry of Social Affairs and National Solidarity
Distributor: Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir (France)
Several women and one male maternal health worker talk about their work, including how they got into the field, what their status is on the job and how they relate to both the children and parents they work with.
WOMEN IN UNIONS
Monique et Christiane (France 1976)
Video, U-matic 3/4 in., b/w, in French
Made by Carole Roussopoulos
Distributor: Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir (France)
Two women discuss the difficulties of being a woman during a factory struggle with management, emphasizing the lack of internal democracy within the union and attitudes toward workplace production.
Shirts and Songs: A Struggle for Self-Management (France 1972)
Film, 16 mm, 15 min., color, in French with English subtitles
Made by Paul Bourron
Distributor: The Development Education Center (DEC) (Canada)
The film depicts the struggle of women textile workers in western France. Mobilized in response to the arbitrary firing of a coworker, the women organize their own production line. The film documents the astounding transformation of the women as they become increasingly assertive and self-confident.
Technology at Work (England)
Video, color, in English
Made by Trade Union Council in collaboration with Riverfront Pictures
Distributor: Riverfront Pictures (England)
The film looks at the challenges unions face with the introduction of new technology. It provides a frank and rarely optimistic analysis of the effect of new technology on reclassification of jobs, division of labor, training, and women's employment.
Women in the Eighties/United We Sit (England 1981)
First in a five-part series
Film, 16 mm; video, 25 min., color, in English
Made by BBC Enterprises Ltd.
Distributor: BBC Enterprises Ltd. (England)
After receiving 90 days' notice of closure of the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock, 140 women organized a sit-in to fight for their jobs. After seven months, they won and the factory reopened.
Women in the Eighties/Six-Hour Day in Denmark (England 1981)
Second in a five-part series
Video; film, 16 mm, 25 min., color, in English
Made by BBC Enterprises Ltd.
Distributor: BBC Enterprises Ltd. (England)
There are 600,000 part-time workers in Denmark. Of these 500,000 are women. It suits many women to work in this way, to be able to care for their home and spend time with their children. But is it a trap? Women's unions are campaigning against part-time work and see the answer in a reduction of working hours for all: the six-hour day.
Women in the Eighties/New Technology in Sweden (England 1981)
Third in a five-part series
Video; film, 16 mm, 25 min., color, in English
Made by BBC Enterprises Ltd.
Distributor: BBC Enterprises Ltd. (England)
This program looks at the impact of new technology on women's work in large organizations and the ways in which women working within unions or organized group are fighting to protect jobs in the secretarial and clerical grades. Their objective is not a negative one but rather to impel both management and unions to rethink the technology in more positive and human terms which will reflect the values and priorities which these women see in their work.
DISCRIMINATION AND JOB HAZARDS
The Amazing Equal Pay Show (England 1974)
Film, 16 mm, 50 min., color, in English
Made by London Women's Film Group
Distributor: Development Education Center (DEC) (Canada)
This film is about the British Equal Pay Act. It portrays the stereotyped roles women find themselves in at work, at home, and in the union through a series of sketches which incorporate elements from musicals, horror films and slapstick comedy.
Profession Agricultrice (France 1982)
(A Farmer by Profession)
Video, 3/4 in., 40 min., color, in French
Made by Carole Roussopoulos with inspiration from Solange Charlot
Producer: Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
Distributor: Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir (France)
Four women farmers from the region of Champagne Ardennes in France talk about their working conditions, including the forms of exploitation they face and the lack of recognition they receive.
Vues d'lci (France 1978)
(Seen from Here)
Film, 16 mm, 98 min., b/w, in French
Made by V. Pinel, C. Zaffirian and a women's collective in Le Havre, France
Distributor: Films Armorial c/o Mouvement Francais pour le Planning Familial (France)
This film is about Annie, a mother of five children who goes back to her job in a factory. This film focuses on issues such as the double work day, marital relations, factory work conditions and union organizing.
All Work and No Pay (England 1976)
Video, VHS, 25 min., b/w, in English
Made by Wages for Housework Campaign
Distributor: King's Cross Women's Centre (England)
All Work and No Pay features interviews with a Black nurse talking about her life as a worker/mother and wife, former battered wives and young and elderly housewives. It includes films of demonstrations in Italy, news from Northern Ireland, and unique shots of Iceland's all-women strike in 1975.
Risky Business (England 1980)
Film, 16 mm; video, 15 min., color, in English
Made by Leeds Animation Workshop
Distributor: Leeds Animation Workshop (England)
A union safety representative named Carol is the main character in this cartoon about health and safety at work. The hazards faced by Carol and her workmates include many common factory and office problems: lifting, noise, chemicals, machinery, and a dust monster which stifles its victims. The questions raised in the film aim to stimulate discussion.
Bitter Wages (England 1984)
Film, 16 mm; video, 37 min., color, in English
Made by Women and Work Hazards Group
Distributor: Cinema of Women (England)
This film was made for and with the Women and Work Hazards Group, which examines the physical and chemical health hazards in a variety of women's workplaces. It also explores causes of stress and the effects of sexism, harassment and poverty in women's working lives and suggests ways to fight them.
NONTRADITIONAL JOBS
Leila: A Woman's Place (England 1979)
Film, 30 min., in English
Distributor: Concord Films Council Ltd. (England)
A young mother decides to be a sewing machine mechanic in spite of both her husband's disapproval and the prospect of receiving unequal pay.
Trois pour Mille (France 1982)
(Three out of a Thousand)
Video 3/4 in., 16 min., color, in French
Made by Marie-Madelaine Koelsh, Lilinae Lament and Francois Malliet
Producer: Ministere de l'Emploi, Maison de la Promotion Sociale et Chambery, University of Grenoble III
Distributor: Maison de la Promotion Sociale
A report on professional training for women in traditionally male jobs.
Jobs for the Girls (England)
Film, 30 min., color, in English
Made by Sheffield Women's Film Coop
Distributors: Liberation Films or Sheffield Women's Coop (England)
Examining one young girl's attempts to become a motor mechanic, this film studies the mechanisms that society employs to maintain traditional attitudes of what is "feminine" and what is "masculine." In her ultimately unsuccessful quest, the young school drop-out encounters a wide range of barriers society erects to dissuade women from entering traditionally male trades and occupations.
Building Your Future (England)
Video, 30 min., color, in English
Made by Women in Manual Trades Group
Distributor: Concord Films Council Ltd. (England)
This video shows the problems, both physical and psychological, which have to be overcome when a woman decides that she would like to be a skilled worker in the building trades. A plumber, carpenter, and a bricklayer tell about how they succeeded in their jobs.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
WOMEN IN UNIONS
Trabalhadoras Metalurgicas (Brazil 1978)
(Women Metalworkers)
Documentary film, 16 mm, 15 min., color, in Portuguese
Made by Olga Futema
Distributors: Cinema Distribucao Independente (Brazil) and Grupo Femenino de Pesquisa Cinematografica (Brazil)
Filmed during the First Women Metalworkers Conference in Sao Bernardo do Campo in January 1978, this film deals with working conditions for women metalworkers.
Tribunal Bertha Lutz (Brazil 1983)
Documentary film, 16 mm, 30 min., color, in Portuguese
Made by Joao Baptista de Andrade
Distributor: Cinema Distribucao Independente (Brazil)
This film documents the first session of the Bertha Lutz Tribunal. Named after one of the pioneers of Brazilian feminism, the Tribunal was created to consider cases of discrimination against women. This session, which took place in Sao Paolo in 1982, dealt with the case of a woman worker who, after working in a factory for several years, accused her employer of wage discrimination. Other women who testified in this film include a number of artists, celebrities, union representatives and rural and urban workers.
Es Primera Vez (Mexico 1981)
(It's the First Time)
Film, 16 mm, 32 min., in Spanish
Made by Cine Mujer - Mexico
Distributor: Centro de la Mujer para la Produccion Audiovisual (Mexico)
This film chronicles one of the first major meetings of Mexican women workers, which took place in Mexico in October of 1980. Bringing together 200 women from over 50 popular workers, peasants and women's organizations, the meeting served as an important forum for women from different classes and regions to exchange and discuss their common experiences of discrimination, exploitation and organization in the workplace. The filmmakers give us a sense of the richness of the debates by focusing on women participants' accounts of their life in the working world.
Asi Paso en mi Fabrica (Dominican Republic)
(That's How It Happened in My Factory)
Slideshow, 15 min., color, in Spanish
Made by Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina
Distributor: Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (Dominican Republic)
This slideshow outlines the different kinds of problems women face in unions. It has three different endings designed to stimulate viewer discussion.
Mujer, Unete a la Lucha! (Colombia)
(Woman, Join the Struggle!)
Slides, 10 min., color, in Spanish
Made by the protagonists
Distributor: Centro Popular para America Latina (CEPALC) (Colombia)
A group of women workers active in a union organize to demand day care, equal rights and an end to sexual harassment in the workplace. Made by the women themselves, this slideshow raises broader questions about the role of women in male-dominated unions and the need to both use and transform existing labor organizations for the promotion of women's rights.
National: 41 Dias de Lucha (Peru)
(National: 41 Days of Struggle)
Slideshow, 72 slides, in Spanish
Distributor: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristan (Peru)
A slideshow about the participation of women workers in the strike called by the union of the industry Empresa National in Lima, Peru.
UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION
Mariela, Roberto y Julio (Chile 1982)
Slideshow, 15 min., color, in Spanish
Made by Patricia Mora
Producer: Educacion y Comunicacion
Distributors: Educacion y Comunicacion (ECO) (Chile) and Patricia Mora (Chile)
This slideshow is about three Chileans living under the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet. Victims of growing unemployment brought on by government policies, Mariela, Roberto and Julio represent the plight of thousands of other Chileans squeezed between joblessness, inflation and repression.
Mulher e Trabalho (Brazil)
(Women and Work)
Slideshow, 15 min., color, in Portuguese
Made by Asociacion de Mulheres de Mato Grosso with the collaboration of Marilza Ribeiro, Lucia Palma, Maria Benicio Rodriguez and Nair Souza
Distributor: Asociacion de Mulheres de Mato Grosso (Brazil)
This slideshow describes the difficulties that women face on the Brazilian job market.
La Republica Dominicana Es un Pais (Dominican Republic)
(The Dominican Republic Is a Country)
Slideshow, 12 min., color, in Spanish
Made by Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF)
Distributor: CIPAF (Dominican Republic)
This slideshow portrays working conditions for women employed in multinational corporations in the Dominican Republic's free trade zones, including their double workload in the home.
Mujer, Trabajo y Produccion (Bolivia)
(Women, Work and Production)
Slideshow, 69 slides, 25 min., in Spanish with copy available in Italian
Made by Audiovisual Educativo Boliviano
Distributors: Audiovisual Educativo Boliviano (Bolivia) (Spanish version) and Movimento Laici America Latina (Italy) (Italian version)
Deals with the lives of three Bolivian women from different social backgrounds — a miner, a peasant and a saleswoman — focusing on the problems they face trying to carry out their work both inside and outside the home. The slideshow also deals briefly with such questions as emigration and economic independence for men as well as women.
Atendimiento de Criancas en Creche (Brazil 1983)
(Childcare in the Kindergarten)
Documentary video, 1/2 in. (VHS), NTSC, color, in Portuguese
Made by Clotilde Rossetti Ferreira
Distributor: Clotilde Rossetti Ferreira (Brazil)
This audiovisual draws a parallel between a child's day in a kindergarten and his mother's day as a seasonal worker on a sugar cane plantation.
Sobre las Condiciones Laborales de la Mujer (Mexico)
(On Working Conditions for Women)
Slideshow, color, in Spanish
Made by Comunicacion, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina (CIDHAL)
Distributor: CIDHAL (Mexico)
This slideshow deals with skills, workforce participation and the kinds of violence and exploitation experienced in the workplace.
RURAL AND INDIGENOUS WOMEN
Ana, Mujer y Campesina (Chile 1983)
(Ana, a Peasant and a Woman)
Slideshow, 12 min., color, in Spanish
Made by Ximena Arrieta, Marisol Lago and Pilar Campana
Distributor: Programa Mujer Campesina, Grupo de Investigacion Agrarias (Chile)
Deals with the participation of women in the peasant economy of a number of Chile's farming regions.
La Mujer en la Feria (Chile 1983)
(Women at the Fair)
Video, 1/2 in. (VHS), NTSC, 18 min., color, in Spanish
Made by Programa de Estudios Capacitacion de la Mujer Campesina (PEMCI) and Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (CEM)
Distributors: PEMCI (Chile) and CEM (Chile)
This video deals with the abuses inflicted on indigenous Mapuche women when they come to the market to sell their goods.
Sweet Sugar Rage (Jamaica 1985)
Video, 3/4 in., 1/2 in., VHS; film, 16 mm, 50 min., color, in Jamaican dialect with subtitles in standard English
Made by Sistren Theatre Collective
Director: Honor Ford-Smith and Harclyde Walcott
Distributor: Sistren Theatre Collective (Jamaica)
Clad like scarecrows in ragged men's trousers under torn workclothes, women sugar workers toil under a blindingly hot Jamaican sun. The mud on the field hides needles of the cassia macca. The women work barefooted. In this film the harsh conditions facing female workers in a Jamaican sugar estate are revealed through the eyes of the women of the Sistren Theatre Collective. Against a background of massive layoffs in the island's essential sugar industry, a Sistren drama workshop is a vehicle for unearthing intimate documentary material on the women workers.
Todos los Santos Cuchumatan (Guatemala)
Film, 16 mm, 41 min., color, in English
Director: Olivia Carrescia
Distributor: International Development Education Resources Association (IDERA Films) (Canada)
This film is an intimate portrait of everyday life in a Mam Indian village in the Guatemalan highlands. It documents the annual sequence of harvest, the elaborate fiesta of Todos Santos, and the mass seasonal migration out of the mountain village to work in the cotton plantations of the hot and humid lowlands. Through interviews with women and men as they go about their daily work, we discover how cash has become increasingly important to the people of this once subsistence farming community.
Carmen Carrascal (Colombia)
Film; video (VHS), 3/4 in., 12/30 min., color, in Spanish with subtitles in English
Made by Sara Bright
Distributors: Cine Mujer Colombia (Colombia) or Women Make Movies (USA)
Carmen Carrascal is an outstanding craftswoman who lives near the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The film is a portrait of Carmen, who faces multiple problems as a woman artisan marketing her baskets, as a mother of nine children whom she is struggling to educate, and as a peasant living under the difficult conditions of the countryside. Available in 12-minute and 30-minute versions.
La Mujer en los Andes (Peru)
Videocassette, 20 min., color, in Spanish
Made by Centro de Servicio de Pedagogia Audiovisual para la Capacitacion (CESPAC)
Distributor: CESPAC (Peru)
Video about the life and work of rural women in Peru.
DOMESTIC WORK, HOUSEWORK AND THE DOUBLE DAY
Puertas Adentro (Chile 1984)
(Doors Inside)
Slideshow, 20 min., color, in Spanish
Made by Patricia Mora
Producer: Circulo de Estudios de la Mujer
Distributor: Circulo de Estudios de la Mujer (Chile) and Patricia Mora (Chile)
In this slideshow, women domestic servants talk about their working conditions. They feel enslaved and isolated and can be called on by their employers to work at any hour of the day. In many cases, they cannot live with their children or have relationships. Meanwhile, their relations with the housewives who employ them are fraught with conflict over such questions as dismissals and lack of contracts. Trapped in a relationship of mutual mistrust, they have no protection whatsoever.
Vida de Domestica (Brazil 1976)
(The Life of a Domestic Worker)
Film, 16 mm, 19 min., b/w, in Portuguese
Made by Eliane Bandeira
Distributor: Cinema Distribucao Independente (CDI) (Brazil)
This film examines the life and difficulties of domestic workers in Brazil's large cities, with special attention to the activities and problems of the Association of Domestic Workers of Sao Paolo.
Se Necesita Muchacha (Peru)
(Girl Wanted)
Slideshow, 143 slides, 15 min., in Spanish
Made by the University of Lima
Distributor: Centro Peruano de la Mujer Flora Tristan (Peru)
This slideshow tells the story of a woman domestic servant.
Tempo Quente (Brazil 1980)
(Warm Weather)
Film, 16 mm, 13 min., color, in Portuguese
Made by Leilany Fernandez Leite
Producer: The Other Cinema
Distributors: Cinema Distribucao Independente (Brazil) and Grupo de Pesquisa Cinematografica (Brazil)
In this film, women domestic servants describe the problems they face as mothers, such as not being able to live with their children and not having a house of their own, with all the material and emotional problems that such a situation entails. They also discuss their work conditions, and describe the kind of violence they face on the job. The film is meant to be an appeal for all women to fight for their rights through involvement in various political, feminist and poor peoples' movements and organizations that support women's causes. It received an award during the 10th Brazilian Day of Short Films, held in Salvador, Bahia in 1981.
The Double Day
Film, 50 min., color, in English
Made by International Women's Film Project
Distributor: The Other Cinema (England)
A documentary on the struggle of Latin American women against their twofold oppression - at work and at home — presenting a thorough analysis of women's conditions and exploitation. The film was made by an international collective of women who went a number of different countries in Latin America filming the double working day of the women they met both in the towns and the countryside.
La Casada es mi Mujer (Mexico)
(That's My Wife)
Slideshow, 73 slides, 12 min., in Spanish
Made by Comunicacion, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina (CIDHAL)
Distributors: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristan (Peru) and CIDHAL (Mexico)
A slideshow about women's double workday, in the home and on the job.
Y su Mama que Hace? (Colombia 1981)
(And What Does Your Mother Do?)
Film, 16 or 35 mm; video, 3/4 and 1/2 in., 10 min., color; accessible to any language group
Made by Cine Mujer - Colombia
Distributor: Cine Mujer (Colombia)
A comedy about domestic work, this film stars a woman who races around her house in the morning getting her children dressed and ready for school, preparing breakfast for her family, filling lunchboxes and doing other chores all at the same time. The dialogue comes at the end of the film, when a little boy asks one of the woman's children: "What does your father do?" "My father is an accountant," he replies. "And what does your mother do?" the friend insists. "Nothing," the boy answers. "She just stays at home."
This film was awarded the Silver Ant prize at the 1982 Bucaramanga International Short Film Festival, and won an award at the 1981 Cartagena International Film Festival. It has also been shown on television in Colombia. Because the speaking segment is so short, the film can easily be adapted for non-Spanish speaking audiences, requiring just a few lines of simultaneous translation.
No Se Ve Pero Produce (Mexico)
(Invisible But Productive)
Documentary slideshow, 138 slides, color, in Spanish with signals for manual slide change
Made by Comunicacion, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina (CIDHAL)
Distributors: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristan (Peru) and CIDHAL (Mexico)
Starting with the everyday life of poor Mexican women, this slideshow goes on to describe how society works as a whole, with special attention to the role of women's work in the home. The slideshow can be used to stimulate discussion among women at the grassroots level.
Un Dia de Olimpia (Dominican Republic)
(A Day in the Life of Olympia)
Slideshow, color, in Spanish
Made by Centro Dominicano de Estudios de la Educacion (CEDEE)
Distributor: CEDEE (Dominican Republic)
In this slideshow, a series of humorous sketches portray the countless tasks that make up women's "invisible work" in the home.
Pajens (Brazil)
(Babysitter)
Video (VHS), 15 min., color, in Portuguese
Made by Fundacion Carlos Chagas, Colectivo de Mujeres
Distributor: Fundacion Carlos Chagas
Depicts the daily life of women who work in day-care centers.
NORTH AMERICA
No Jobs Is Bad Music (USA 1979)
Slides, in English
Distributor: American Friends Service Committee (USA)
This slideshow looks at the myths of unemployment: people are too lazy to work; women are taking all the jobs from men; technology means there cannot be enough jobs for all. It shows these ideas to be fabrications that prevent us from really dealing with the tragedy of unemployment in a way that will provide good jobs for all.
The Woman Question (USA 1980)
Film, 16 mm, 5 min., color, in English
Made by Nina Wax
Distributor: Iris Feminist Collective (USA)
The Woman Question is a hilarious five-minute political satire that illuminates the situation of many women in the workforce. A woman is presented working as a welder in a metal working factory performing repetitious and tedious work, while the audience hears the voices of various interested parties as well as those of other workers in the factory who narrate the story.
The Impossible Dream
Film, 8 min., in French, Spanish and Arabic
Distributor: Lucerne Films Inc. (USA)
This is an animated film, without narration, which takes a humorous look at a problem faced by women everywhere: the double workload of a full-time job and caring for the household and children.
Madame, Vous Avez Rien (Canada 1982)
Film, 16 mm; videocassette, 55 min., color, in French
Made by Dagmar Gueissaz
Producer: National Film Board of Canada
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
Farmers by vocation, the women of the agricultural region of Richelieu in the French-speaking region of Quebec work harder than most men, attending to countless chores in what is still largely a domestic and heavily patriarchal economy.
Made by a woman farmer, this film describes the kind of exploitation these women face in the division of labor, property rights for married and divorced women, and the overall lack of recognition for women's work as the "invisible" managers of both farm and household.
The Borrowed Land (Canada)
Film, 45 min., in English
Made by Signe Johansson
Distributor: Studio D (USA), National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
A film about women of the Peace River, an area where many family farms are forced out of business by a wide variety of factors including land ownership, the competing use of farmland for industrial, recreational or residential development, the rising costs of farming, and large-scale agribusiness.
The Dozens (USA)
Film, 16 mm, 78 min., color, in English
Made by Christian Dall and Randall Conrad
Distributor: Calliope Film Resources Inc. (USA)
The Dozens depicts a woman in trouble with the law and focuses on the common needs and struggles of young working-class women. It explores not only the limitations placed on women by the criminal justice system, but also the larger limitations placed on women by society - in the workplace, the home, and the legal system.
Where Did You Get That Woman? (USA 1983)
Film, 16 mm, 27 min., color, in English
Made by Loretta Smith
Producer: Loretta Smith
Distributor: ICAP (USA)
A portrait of a Black woman restroom attendant, this film is filled with the protagonist's comments about the "marvelous people" she has served in the course of her working years. Endowed with a strong sense of humor and powerful survival instinct, her story is charged with implicit irony about her hardships as a poor Black woman in the United States. A soundtrack of blues and folk music reminds us of the ties between her story and those of an entire generation of Black women.
Susan (France 1976)
Film, 16 mm, 15 min, color in French
Made by Jacqueline Veuve
Producer: Jacqueline Veuve
Distributor: Centre Audiovisual Simone de Beauvoir (France)
A portrait of Susan, a thirty-year-old French professor at Harvard University in the U.S. and karate teacher.
HISTORY
Talkin' Union (USA)
Film, 16 mm, 58 min., b/w, in English
Made by People's History in Texas, Inc.
Distributor: University of Texas Film Library (USA)
Talkin' Union is oral history about four Texas women and their union organizing activities from 1930 to 1960. Despite their growing presence in the workforce, Texan women still face the same problems they confronted thirty years ago, including low pay, miserable benefits and poor working conditions. Through some of their attempts to win better pay and improve working conditions failed, as the film demonstrates, these women remain convinced of the importance of their struggles in guaranteeing their own rights and those of other women workers.
Her Story/Working Women of Waldo Country (USA)
(First in a three-part series)
Video, 3/4 in., Betamax, 30 min., color, in English
Made by The Wonnen's Video Network
Distributor: The Women's Video Network (USA)
This program is about four women in their seventies who talk about the work their mothers and grandmothers did.
Our Heritage/Working Women of Waldo County (USA)
(Second in a three-part series)
Video, 3/4 in., Betamax, 30 min., color, in English
Made by The Women's Video Network
Distributor: The Women's Video Network (USA)
In Waldo Country, forest, sea and land provided European settlers with a livelihood. The family was the basic economic unit which women, by their labor, managed, created and recreated. Through diaries and memory, a woman's workday of the past is revealed.
Today/Working Women of Waldo County (USA)
(Last in a three-part series)
Video, 3/4 in., Betamax, 30 min., color, in English
Made by The Women's Video Network
Distributor: The Women's Video Network (USA)
"For Waldo County industrialization meant the end of the family farm. As men became wage earners, women's role caring for the family seemed to lose economic importance. For them to combine managing the home with working outside was a hard transition. Today in Waldo County women are 35% of the workforce and 55% of the unemployed and earn 65% as much as the men." In factories, laundromats and supermarkets, the camera studies women at work today.
WOMEN IN UNIONS
I Am Somebody (USA 1970)
Film, 20 min., In English
Distributor: AFL-CIO (USA)
The film documents the 1969 strike of 400 hospital workers, mostly Black women, in Charleston, South Carolina. It makes significant connections between workers and the poor. The film also provides an interesting reflection on the question why most of the strikers are women while the spokespersons are men.
We Won't Live Like That (Canada 1980)
Film, 16 mm, 18 min., color, in English
Made by Steelworkers
Distributors: Steelworkers National Office (Canada)
This film about the strike of women workers against Radio Shack shows the difficulties of negotiating a first contract and the strains of a long strike. The women talk about their new understanding of the role of the police, who intervened constantly in the picket line. It also shows the support the strikers got from women in the community.
The Fleck Women (Canada 1978)
Video, 3/4 in., 24 min., color, in English
Made by Kem Murch
Distributor: Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre (Canada)
The strike action of 80 women employed at the Fleck Manufacturing Company in Ontario in March 1978 was met with disproportionate police retaliation and brutality. This video documents the women's struggles and illustrates their courage and the bonding process of the collective action. The fight against appalling working conditions, police harassment and political inequality resulted in a growing awareness of their shared problems and shared strengths. In the words of the workers at Fleck, "It's a disgraceful affair when we cannot turn to the law for justice"; from another woman, "We have learned the meaning of sisterhood."
The Willmar 8 (USA 1980)
Film, 16 mm, 55 min., color, in English
Made by Mary Beth Yarrow and Julie Thompson
Distributor: International Development Education Resources Association (IDERA Films) (Canada)
The film tells the inspiring story of eight women bank workers in the small town of Willmar, Minnesota who took the most unexpected step of their lives by forming a union and starting the first bank strike in the history of Minnesota. They were responding to low wages, poor working conditions, sexual discrimination in job promotion, and a bank manager who had told them: "We're not all equal, you know." The film is a profoundly moving account of their difficult two year strike. It shows that ordinary women in ordinary towns are capable of changing their lives and finding in themselves the extraordinary resources that such action requires.
Women of Clifton (USA)
Video, 10 min., color, in English
Made by University of Arizona
Distributor: Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary, P.O. Box 1177, Clifton, Arizona, 85533, USA.
A documentary depicting the Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary 40 years ago and today, showing its activities and its increasing role as a political catalyst. The Auxiliary is part of the community support organized behind striking copper miners in Arizona.
RIGHTS AND DISCRIMINATION
Rights of Working Women (Canada 1980)
Video, 3/4 in., 28 min., color, in English
Made by Cross-Cultural Communications Centre (CCCC)
Distributor: CCCC (Canada)
This video discusses most of the major legislation affecting women workers - sex and racial discrimination, wages and hours of work, vacation and maternity leave, working conditions, compensation and unionization. Areas where legislation is lacking are identified.
It's Not Your Imagination (Canada 1980)
Film, 16 mm, 21 min., color, in English
Made by Women Against Violence Against Women and Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre
Distributor: Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre (Canada)
This film shows five women from various social and economic backgrounds who have been sexually harassed on the job. They tell us what happened to them and what they did about it. The film also uses animation of archival photographs and etchings to describe the social and economic conditions that have led to women's oppressed situation in the workforce while two women union representatives discuss the obligations of unions to protect their members from this form of discrimination.
Women Want (Canada 1975)
Film, 25 min., color, in English
Made by National Film Board of Canada
Distributor: National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
This film deals with some of the major issues affecting women such as equal pay, property rights, day care and labor force reentry.
Women at Work: Employment Discrimination (USA 1978)
Video, 3/4 in., 30 min., b/w, in English
Made by Seattle Feminist Video
Distributor: Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre (Canada)
This videotape examines employment discrimination against women in both traditional and nontraditional jobs. Information is shared on legal remedies for employment discrimination, comparable worth of jobs, organizing working women and employment opportunities for women in skilled trades.
CLERICAL WORK AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGY
La Perle Rare (Canada 1980)
(The Rare Pearl)
Video, 1/2 and 3/4 in., 29 min., b/w
Made by Diane Poitras
Producer: Groupe Intervention Video (GIV)
Distributor: GIV (Canada)
A source of stability within the family, the female secretary carries out the same functions in the office as women in the home. What's more, employers encourage her to develop so-called feminine virtues of discretion, flexibility, availability and good looks. As an adjunct or assistant, as a faithful shadow, the secretary is a symbol that every major male accomplishment ultimately depends on women's work.
Why Aren't You Smiling? (USA 1980)
Slideshow, 20 min., color, in English
Made by Community Media Productions
Distributor: Development Education Center (DEC) (Canada)
This slideshow looks at the situation of women office workers in the United States. It traces the history of women's work in the office, shows the problems faced by Black women, identifies the impact of new office technologies on women's work, and ends with a powerful call for women to organize.
Starting from Nina: The Politics of Learning (Canada 1978)
Film, 16 mm, 30 min., color, in English
Made by the Development Education Center (DEC)
Distributor: DEC (Canada)
The film documents some consciousness-raising experiences among working women in Ontario, including immigrant and clerical workers and schoolchildren in a working class neighborhood. In the portion of the film that deals with clerical workers, the women discuss the nature and pressures of their work and decide to form a staff association with a view toward unionizing.
Pour Qui Tourne la Roue (Canada 1983)
(For Whom the Wheel Turns)
Video, 3/4 and 1/2 in., 36 min., b/w, in French; also available in VHS, color
Made by Carole Laurin, Ginette Lajoie, Irene Demczuk, Louise Lacasse and Lynda Peers
Producer: Les productions actions feministe par l'image
Distributor: Groupe Intervention Video (GIV) (Canada)
Computer technology makes the world go round, we are often told. Only where is it taking us? Is it opening or closing doors for women? With the introduction of new technologies, many women risk being laid off from work or being put into a new female job ghetto, increasing both their unemployment and their isolation. In this video, three women who are undergoing computerization in their workplaces talk about how new technologies have changed their jobs and working conditions. Their statements help provide a broader picture of what women's conditions in the marketplace and in society are like today.
NONTRADITIONAL JOBS
Les Metiers Non Traditionnels (Canada 1981)
(Nontraditional Careers)
Video, 3/4 in., 28 min., color, in French
Made by Femmes en Focus
Distributor: Groupe Intervention Video (GIV) (Canada)
In this video, women mechanics, cabinet makers and "cameramen" from Acadia talk about their work, their training and the path that led them to their current jobs. Laced with a sense of humor, these accounts give us a sense of how difficult it was for these women to choose a nontraditional career and the kind of negative reactions they got from their families (including their parents or husbands), their colleagues and society in general. On the whole, the video presents an optimistic view of women's work in traditionally male sectors and encourages women to enter nontraditional jobs.
Yes, We Can! (Canada)
Videocassette, 3/4 in., 31 min., b/w, in French or English
Made by Video Femmes
Distributors: Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre (for English copy), Video Femmes (for French copy) (Canada)
From a garbage collector to an electrotechnician, where does one situate women in such trades, traditionally so-called "masculine?" Six women speak of the difficulties they have encountered, the changes they hope for and the growth and self-worth brought about by the pursuit of these unusual professions.
Too Dirty for a Woman (Canada)
Film, 17 min., in English
Made by Signe Johansson, Kathleen Shannon
Distributor: Studio D (USA), National Film Board of Canada (Canada)
In the late 1970s, the Iron Ore Company of Canada opened to women jobs traditionally held by men only. This film studies the personal lives and working experiences of several women who moved to the remote single industrial town of Labrador City to take the advantage of these opportunities.
Moving Mountains (Canada 1981)
Film, 16 mm, 30 min., color, in English
Made by Laura Sky
Distributor: Steelworkers National Office (Canada)
Alongside 1042 men in an open pit coal mine in British Columbia, 80 women work at jobs usually held only by men. This film shows their work and their capabilities in drilling, blasting and driving gigantic machinery.
Women in the Trades (Canada 1980)
Film, video, 3/4 in., 57 min., color, in English
Made by Saskatchewan Women in Trades
Distributor: Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre (Canada)
Women from eight different skilled trades demonstrate their jobs, talk about different aspects of the work and comment on some of the advantages and disadvantages of employment in the trades. Other important aspects of being a woman in a traditionally male field are dealt with. These include the importance of support from friends and family, learning how to deal with negative attitudes towards women on the job and the satisfactions of succeeding in a different field.
Women in the Trades - Pretrades Program (Canada 1977)
Video, 3/4 in., 25 min., b/w, in English
Made by Georgette Ganne
Distributor: Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre (Canada)
Women are often excluded from gaining trade experience in the process of growing up and discouraged from taking high school trades courses. They are therefore often at a disadvantage in taking trades programs where a basic level of skills and knowledge is assumed. The Pretrades Program for Women in Winnepeg, similar to others across Canada, is designed to introduce women to different trades and to give them basic skills and experience in each. Women involved in the course share their ideas and enthusiasm and discuss their problems on entering and working within the male-dominated trades.
Coalmining Women (USA)
Film, 40 min., color, in English
Made by Elizabeth Barret
Distributor: Appalshap (USA)
Interviewed at home and on the job, women coal miners describe the social conditions and economic pressures that led them to seek employment in this traditionally male-dominated industry, and the problems they encountered once hired. We see them participating in union affairs, organizing among themselves and leading the fight for miners' health and safety. The film emphasizes women's significant contribution to coalfield struggles.
We Dig Coal (USA 1981)
Film, 16 mm, 60 min., in English
Distributor: State of the Art (USA)
This film documents the entrance of women into the Appalachian coal mines and the story of the first woman to die in an underground mine. The interviews with women miners, their families, and their male coworkers are engaging. Unfortunately, the film fails to help us understand why this tragic accident occurred and what could be done to prevent such accidents in the future. The film also fails to tell us much about the United Mine Workers, which plays a crucial role in the story.
Breaking Through (Canada 1981)
Film, 16 mm, 22 min., color, in English
Made by Kem Murch Women's Workshop
Distributor: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center (CFMDC) (Canada)
A docudrama that provides an experiential look at trade skills and technology training programs for women and a firsthand account of the women who enter them. We are shown how skills and technology training for women raises such issues as fear, role playing and male jealousy. The message is that any type of work must be learned and that women are equally capable of mastering new skills.
SEE ALSO
Other resources that address the themes of this chapter are listed below. The chapters where they may be found are given in boldface type.
WORLDWIDE
Empowering Women for Development
What Rights Has a Woman (Italy)-rural
Women Power: The Hidden Asset-rural
The Role of Women in Food Security (Italy)-rural
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Empowering Women for Development
Abosoma (Netherlands)-rural
ASIA
Women in Struggle
Du Yu Dao: Big Fish Village
Empowering Women for Development
We Thai Women (Thailand)-rural
Migrants and Refugees
My Filipina (Korea)
Images of Women
Struggle for a Just Portrayal/Women in the Development Process (India)
AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
Empowering Women for Development
East Sepik Women's Network (Papua New Guinea)-rural
Identity, Roles and Relationships
Women Returning to Study (Australia)
Sexual Violence
It's Just a Compliment, Luv (Australia)
EUROPE
Reclaiming Our History
The Song of the Shirt (England)
Women in Struggle
Scuola Senza Fine (Italy)
Migrants and Refugees
Hanggang Kailan? (Italy)-domestic work
Identity, Roles and Relationships
Taking Place (England)-domestic work
Le Madonnare (Italy)
Mais Qu'Est-ce Qu'Elles Veulent? (France)
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Women in Struggle
Asi Luchamos las Mujeres de Canaria (Peru)-unions
Women of Surinam (Surinam)-unions
Empowering Women for Development
Tantas Vidas, Una Historia (Chile)-domestic work
Vida de Angel (Mexico)
Nosotras, las Mujeres de los Barrios Populares del Cusco (Peru)
Against Apartheid and Racism
Yo Soy Chicano (Mexico)-rural
Migrants and Refugees
La Muchacha Migrante (Argentina)
Gaijin: Roads to Freedom (Brazil)
Identity, Roles and Relationships
Las Vecinas (Chile)-domestic work
Vicios de la Cocina (Mexico)
Desde el Cristal Donde Se Mira (Mexico)- domestic work
A Menina e a Casa da Menina (Brazil)- domestic work
The Lady of Pacaembu (Brazil)- domestic work
On the Margins/Prostitution
No Es por Gusto (Mexico)
NORTH AMERICA
Reclaiming Our History
Good Work, Sister (USA)
Union Maids (USA)-unions
Rosie the Riveter (USA)
Women in Struggle
A Wive's Tale (USA)-unions
Rising Up Strong: Women in the '80s (Canada)
Migrants and Refugees
We Women Workers (Canada)
With Their Blessing Hands (Netherlands)
Images of Women
On the Bias (Canada)
Faits Divers: Elle Remplace Son Mari par une TV (Canada)-domestic work
Another Great Day (USA)-domestic work
Identity, Roles and Relationships
The Spring and Fall of Nina Polanski (Canada)-domestic work
Sexual Violence
Tous les Jours ... Tous les Jours (Canada)