{"id":7063,"date":"2021-02-26T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/these-10-films-about-sexism-highlight-the-intersections-of-womens-fight-for-equality\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:00:54","slug":"these-10-films-about-sexism-highlight-the-intersections-of-womens-fight-for-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/these-10-films-about-sexism-highlight-the-intersections-of-womens-fight-for-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"These 10 Films About Sexism Highlight the Intersections of Women’s Fight for Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chances are, if you\u2019re a moviegoer, you\u2019ve heard a little something about women\u2019s fight for equality in Hollywood. According to Women and Hollywood, a nonprofit organization that educates and advocates for the cause, women remain poorly represented behind the camera, making up just 10% of directors and 19% of writers. It\u2019s no wonder that women, so often boxed out of sharing their stories on screen, would distill that pain into their filmmaking, creating powerful stories of how sexism and misogyny continue to oppress women from all walks of life. In these ten movies about sexism, women struggle for equality everywhere from iron mines to NASA to the Supreme Court. They also rail against the intersections of bigotry, seeing their fight for gender equality inflected by racism, homophobia, and other shameful prejudices. For women, these films will ring as validations of a shared struggle. For everyone else, they\u2019ll be an education, an exercise in empathy, and a rousing call to arms. If you feel galvanized to take action by any of these films, don\u2019t just sit there\u2014explore what you can do in your community, and how you can be an ally in the long project of achieving gender equality. On the Basis of Sex Felicity Jones stars as the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this stirring biopic about how Ginsburg made history, from her early days at Harvard Law School to the landmark gender discrimination case she argued in federal court during the early 1970s. On the Basis of Sex… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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Chances are, if you\u2019re a moviegoer, you\u2019ve heard a little something about women\u2019s fight for equality in Hollywood. According to Women and Hollywood, a nonprofit organization that educates and advocates for the cause, women remain poorly represented behind the camera, making up just 10% of directors and 19% of writers. 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