DOUBLE DAY Part 9

Description

DOCUMENTARY: The focuses on oppression of women in unskilled, low-wage employment as symptomatic of gap between social classes in Latin America and suggests that women's struggle for liberation and advancement is only one element in a system-wide movement against discrimination and oppression. Under discussion are wide range of issues including influence that economic and social structures have on family relationships; values which come from women's work in home; legal, monetary, and other forms discrimination and structual barriers that exclude women from particular areas of employment; degree of acces women have to higher-ranking jobs; and consequences of women's role as secondary wage earner. Increasing social and political awareness by women, examination of men's attitudes reveals, is treated as confrontation with traditions in law, family, education, employment, and other sectors of society.

Collection

Records of the Agency for International Development

Series

Moving Images Relating to International Development Programs and Activities