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Women at Work (1958)
Directed by Gordon Sparling
Documentary · 22m
An introduction to the employment picture in Canada in the late 1950s, designed to inform potential immigrants of job opportunities existing for women. The film reviews many fields of work in which women are engaged, ranging from the highly specialized to the unskilled, and shows much of it being performed by women who have come to Canada from many different lands. Placement services and information services established to help newly arrived immigrants are shown in operation. Viewed from a modern perspective, the greater part of the film accepts as normal the waste of women's talents in repetitive or service jobs while elevating this work to the status of a career. Currently distributed only in 13-minute abridged form.
Crew
- Director
- Gordon Sparling
- Director of Photography
- Grant Crabtree
- Original Music Composer
- Eldon Rathburn
- Editor
- Gordon Sparling
- Producer
- Gordon Sparling
Details
- Release date
- 1958-01-01
- Runtime
- 22m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- ONF | NFB