Blog #11

A film where you see poor working women is North Country with Charlize Theron. Charlize Theron’s character, Josey, goes to work for a mine. The movie is mainly about sexual discrimination, but the main character is a poor working woman. She leaves her abusive husband and goes into life poverty. She lives with her parents at first, but eventually makes it into a broken down old house that she tries to fix up and make a home for her children. She works really hard, but she can never seem to make it over that hump out of poverty. She is constantly being harassed at work, but she realizes that having any job, no matter how bad it is, is better than no job. She struggles to balance a life between her children and her work. She also struggles with having to buy her children presents for special occasions. She always wants to give them more and do better for them, but you can tell that she is doing the best that she can. Eating out at a restaurant is a big privilege to her and the children and they only do it occasionally. I remember one part where she gets the kids a trampoline for Christmas I believe, but you can tell it took a lot out of her to get it for them. Josey also gets called all these names that a majority of women under Josey’s circumstances probably would not get called unless they were poor working women. She is called white trash and then she is also called a skank and a slut and all the other horrid names women get called simply because the guys at work do not like her. These guys at work see that she needs this job and she is going to do whatever it takes to keep it, so they take advantage of her.