Film
Women at Work
1958 · 22m · Documentary
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Overview
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
- Gordon SparlingDirector · Producer · Editor
- Nicholas BallaExecutive Producer
- Grant CrabtreeDirector of Photography
- Eldon RathburnOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1958
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 22m
- Rated
- G
- Genres
- Documentary
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