is movie brings out issues that women face in the workplace every day.In the late 1980s, womens roles in movies take a dramatic turn. Instead of the man being ambitious and successful it is now the womens turn. In the movie Baby Boom, J.C. is a very successful businesswoman. She is conservative and elegant, definitely not a sex symbol. She is the type of women who knows what she wants and goes out and gets it. She inherits a baby from a distant cousin and has no idea how to take care of it. She finds out just how hard it is to juggle a job and a family. In the 1980s movies begin to show how hard women have to work to juggle a job and still take care of a family. They also show what kinds of harassments women put up with in the office. In the 1990s movies go back and forth between showing strong independent women and their counterparts women who need a man to make their lives better. In the movie Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts plays a hooker in Los Angeles, California. She meets a rich man who pays her to stay with him for a week. Throughout the week he teachers her how to act like a lady and buys her clothes so she can dress like a lady. By the end of the movie the fall in love. This movie portrays a woman having a horrible life until a man comes along and gives it meaning. The latter 1990s have brought many wonderful movies to theaters worldwide. More movies now are about women and their lives. The movie G.I. Jane is about a women who goes through navy seals training. She is picked out of many women to go through this training. She is chosen because she is pretty and feminine. She proves herself by successfully completing her training and becoming a navy seal. Although she is a strong woman and she is not supposed to be a sex symbol, she is still shown throughout the movie with little clothing. The movies are different from movies in the 1940s because women are taking different roles than that of the homemaker or the ...
