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Post by Andrea Doria on May 11, 2023 19:43:39 GMT
I watched Margaret Lindsay in, "The Law in Her Hands," and enjoyed it. Her friendly interaction with the other woman was the best part for me. I love a wise cracking pal.
These movies with women CEOs and women lawyers are a revelation. Women did work outside the home!
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Post by Fading Fast on May 11, 2023 20:48:57 GMT
I watched Margaret Lindsay in, "The Law in Her Hands," and enjoyed it. Her friendly interaction with the other woman was the best part for me. I love a wise cracking pal.
These movies with women CEOs and women lawyers are a revelation. Women did work outside the home! My widowed-at-a-young-age grandmother ran a small business, my mother was a bookkeeper and several aunts worked - teachers, salesclerks, hostess in a restaurant and some other jobs - so I grew up in the 1970s around around women who had been working for decades.
When I started on Wall St. in the 1980s, there were women in senior roles - traders, sale people, members of the New York Stock Exchange, executives, etc. They were in the minority, but not anywhere near as rare as one might have thought. And those women had started their careers in the '40s-'60 to have been in those senior positions in the '80s.
It's not that it was easy for women, it wasn't at all, but the story wasn't as black-and-white / all one way as either the movies under the Code make it seem or, as you note, present generations (in the '70s and today) sometimes like to make it sound.
For example, my grandmother was very accepted in the business community in the town I grew up in.
Life in the past, as always, was much-more complex than our modern shorthands often want to allow for.
If you read the books and newspapers of the era, you'll get a much-more-rounded view of earlier time periods than the movies under the Code show. It's also something we see - despite their exaggerated aspects - in the precode movies of the early 1930s.
Last thought, in the '70s and '80s, I went with my relatives to some of their doctor visits (my father was in his 40s when I was born, so I was always around much-older people than most kids) and I'd say two out of ten of the doctors were women. I have no idea if that was the norm as my sample size is small, but that was a professional field that certainly had some women working in it back then, which means those women started in medical school in the '30s-'60s.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on May 13, 2023 22:18:03 GMT
I am really sorry to have missed this one and all the fun with everyone. And I too really miss Ando.
I couldn't find a non-Russian copy, same with tomorrow's movie.
My irrational fear of of of these sites persists. Sigh.
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Post by topbilled on May 14, 2023 0:12:30 GMT
I am really sorry to have missed this one and all the fun with everyone. And I too really miss Ando. I couldn't find a non-Russian copy, same with tomorrow's movie. My irrational fear of of of these sites persists. Sigh. Next weekend, May 21, we will be watching THAT BRENNAN GIRL...and there is a restored copy you can watch free on YouTube. But I do hope you are able to see WHITE BANNERS.
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Post by Fading Fast on May 14, 2023 6:16:18 GMT
I am really sorry to have missed this one and all the fun with everyone. And I too really miss Ando. I couldn't find a non-Russian copy, same with tomorrow's movie. My irrational fear of of of these sites persists. Sigh. You are missed.
I understand your concerns as a messed up computer is awful. On Topbilled's advice, I tried the Russian site and have now used it for well over a year and have not had a single issue, and I scan my hard drive all the time. That said, I respect your decision.
I'm really looking forward to "White Banners" and hope you find a way to join us. I just tried several sites I use and can't find a copy of it anywhere but on the Russian site. I'm sorry.
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