Young women, go see Made In Dagenham (spoiler)

Ron 2022-03-28 08:01:02

I argued with a foreign friend yesterday. In his opinion, China should recognize same-sex marriage (the United Kingdom recognizes partnership).
I said, it takes time, in Eastern society, it takes time.

Coincidentally, I watched the movie Made In Dagenham in the evening. Children born in the 1980s or 1990s who grew up in cities should be hard-pressed to imagine that this strike of equal pay for equal pay for men and women began in 1968 at the Ford Motor Factory in the UK and eventually swept across the country and even the world. That's when men's jaws dropped when they heard about equal pay for men and women.

Two years after the successful strike of the female workers, Equal pay for women became a formal law in the UK, and these actually happened in Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

The story takes place in Dagenham, a British mechanical manufacturing town. One of the long-term, peaceful towns, humble public houses (from today's point of view), lined with chimneys, after get off work, men and women workers pass briskly on bicycles (if not for actors) Being British, it felt like it was happening all around us, our 70s/80s story).

Finally, I said to my foreign friends, do you think that men and women are equal, equal pay for equal work, even in the UK, it took 50 years?

no! ! ! It took us 5,000 years. If it wasn't for World War II, women are still washing clothes, cooking and raising children at home~

So don't tell me, China should be like this, China should be like this, you were not the same before, we are not enough Easy hehe.

The film has the usual wonderful dialogue in the style of a BBC documentary (although this is not a documentary). Of course, the screenwriter is very limited. The heroine was very shy at first, and then suddenly became a political leader.

If you also love the fashion-first flavor of the 1960s, this film is eye-catching, even if most of the pages show working class women, bob heads, hippies, and miniskirts. . . The clothes and hairstyle are also very good.

In the film, the heroine meets the British government's employment minister as a strike representative. In the private conversation after the end, the female minister asks the female worker, "Is your skirt from Biba?" The topshop is more prosperous) The
female worker said yes, yours is a C&A (cheap mass brand)? , the female minister smiled and said, "Why pay more?"

That red dress is really nice. Anyone who sees it for sale, please tell me hehe.

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Extended Reading
  • Josefina 2022-03-29 09:01:10

    As long as there is a dream, work hard to realize it, success is left to those who have action and perseverance, feminist movement, equal pay

Made in Dagenham quotes

  • [Albert is being accused by his union of scuppering other negotiations with management by supporting the women's equal-pay strike]

    Bartholomew: As a union we have to remember who comes first. The Communist Party. And Marx himself said "Men write their own history". That's "men", Albert.

    Albert Passingham: But didn't he also say "Progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex"? Or was that a different Marx? That was Groucho, was it?

    [Bartholomew is lost for words]

    Albert Passingham: Equal pay across the board. You telling me that ain't worth fighting for? Of course it is, and you know it. I'll tell you something. This Rita has got a bigger set of balls than you three put together. And she ain't scared to lay 'em on the line, neither. And I for one am gonna help her. And if you are what you say you are, an organisation pledged to support its members, then you'll get off your lazy fat arses and you'll help her too. Good fucking evening.

    [Albert walks out of the office]

  • [Rita gives an impromptu speech at the trade union conference]

    Rita O'Grady: My best friend lost her husband recently. He was a gunner in the 50 Squadron in the RAF. Got shot down one time, on a raid to Essen. And even though he was badly injured, he managed to bail out. I asked him why he joined the RAF, and he said "Well, they've got the best women, haven't they?"

    [audience laughs]

    Rita O'Grady: And then he said "Well, you've got to do something, haven't you? You had to do something, that was a given. Cos it was a matter of principle. You had to stand up. You had to do what was right. Cos otherwise you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror." When did that change, eh? When did we, in this country, decide to stop fighting? I don't think we ever did. But you've got to back us up. You've got to stand up with us. *We* are the working classes - the men *and* the women. We're not separated by sex, but only by those who are willing to accept injustice and those like our friend George who are prepared to go into battle for what is right. And equal pay for women *is* right.