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Publisher
Cinedigm Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
When Sara Shaw's big idea for a Christmas initiative is stolen, she makes a wish to Santa that she'll finally have the courage to stand up for herself. Santa grants her wish but only gives her 48 hours. When she reveals to Peter Williams, the handsome owner of the company, that her boss stole her idea, she can't help but wonder if the wish is actually working. As time runs out on Sara's wish, she'll have to find a way to channel the magic and speak...
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beth, a quiet and vulnerable misfit, is the only female employee in the shipping and receiving department of a local sausage company. She lives at home where she takes care of her ailing mother who never leaves the couch and refuses to watch anything but Julia Roberts movies. The house is also shared by Beth's older brother Robbie, an outsider artist who is still trying to put the pieces back together after a failed engagement eleven years prior.
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the "cool girl" or the "catty workplace". Covens. Girl Bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of necessity, of support. In Witches, Sam George-Allen explores how wherever women gather, magic happens. Female farmers change the way we grow our food....
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Lucille Ball plays a newly widowed secretary named Lucy Carmichael. Her irritable supervisor, Mr. Barnsdahl (Charles Lane) was replaced in 1963 with a new and equally irritable boss, Theodore J. Mooney (Gale Gordon). Lucy plays her well-known and well-loved character, Lucy from the I love Lucy show.
Series
Criterion collection volume 771
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes, before time runs out.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Told through the compelling lives of five courageous Haitian women workers, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman's personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti. And while Poto Mitan offers in-depth understanding of Haiti, its focus on women's subjugation, worker exploitation, poverty, and resistance makes it clear that these are global struggles. Marie-Jeanne details her dual...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. For five years, Beck was a part of the elite team of men and women who accompanied the president wherever he went, recorder and mic in hand. She got to know everyone from the White House butler to the secret servicemen, advance team, speechwriters, photographers, and press secretaries,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Economist and award-winning author Sylvia Ann Hewlett blends vivid stories with powerful new data in assessing the impact of the #MeToo movement in corporate America and provides concrete action to help executives and companies create more inclusive and safe work environments for women, people of color, and LGBTQ employees.
While the #MeToo movement has exposed the enormous harm done by sexual misconduct in the workplace, the movement's full promise...
13) Double holiday
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Career-minded Rebecca's plans for Hanukkah don't go as expected when a promotion opportunity comes up at work. When the company CEO asks Rebecca and her insufferable office mate, Chris, also her main competitor for the promotion, to plan the company's Christmas party, she realizes they must overcome their opposing styles to succeed. Forced to work together on the party, Chris learns more about Rebecca and embraces her family's Hanukkah traditions,...
14) Math at work
Publisher
Her Own Words
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Using still pictures with voice over, the producers show thirteen women ranging from a helicopter pilot, an architect, a police officer, and a firefighter, to machinists and welders, and highlight how they use mathematics on the job.
15) Radium girls
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, it follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie's world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming of age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. Based on historical events,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
©2011.
Language
English
Description
"It's only because they like me. I was in the right place at the right time. I just work harder than the others. I don't deserve this. It's just a matter of time before I am found out. Someone must have made a terrible mistake. If you are a working woman, chances are this internal monologue sounds all too familiar. And you're not alone. From the high-achieving Ph. D. candidate convinced she's only been admitted to the program because of a clerical...
Author
Publisher
Her Own Words
Pub. Date
©1994-2006
Language
English
Description
A nontraditional occupation (NTO) is a career in which women make up less than 25 percent of the workforce. Using first-person narrative stories, based upon extensive interviews, this series presents oral histories of a wide range of vocations in a concise way. They can stand alone or be used with their 114-page resource guides as an effective program. -- Information from the www.NontraditionalCareers.com website.
Author
Publisher
Her Own Words
Pub. Date
©1994-2006
Language
English
Description
A nontraditional occupation (NTO) is a career in which women make up less than 25 percent of the workforce. Using first-person narrative stories, based upon extensive interviews, this series presents oral histories of a wide range of vocations in a concise way. They can stand alone or be used with their 114-page resource guides as an effective program. -- Information from the www.NontraditionalCareers.com website.
Author
Publisher
Her Own Words
Pub. Date
©1994-2006
Language
English
Description
A nontraditional occupation (NTO) is a career in which women make up less than 25 percent of the workforce. Using first-person narrative stories, based upon extensive interviews, this series presents oral histories of a wide range of vocations in a concise way. They can stand alone or be used with their 114-page resource guides as an effective program. -- Information from the www.NontraditionalCareers.com website.
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