Gender and Film 2

In the movie, Anchor Man, it shows how women are oppressed in the work world. This movie demonstrates the glass ceiling. During the movie the anchor men of a news channel try to keep a woman from moving up in the news department. She is a news reporter that goes out to the scene and has the less important stories. Her dream is to be the lead anchor who sits behind the desk. It takes place in the late 70's when womens rights were more limited. One day she gets her chance when the lead anchor man shows up to work late and she gets to show her talent as being the lead anchor woman for the day and proves that she can handle the position. She gets her dream by sharing the position with a man as co-lead anchor. It shows how women were dicriminated in the work field and were believed to lack as leaders because they were female.