Documentary on the status of women in Japan. It begins with a group of "progressive" women working to improve women's lot. Images of Meiji statesmen Fukuzawa Yukichi and Mori Arinori are shown with comment that they recognized the importance of women and worked towards their equality. The narrator states that in spite of their efforts, attitudes towards women were slow to change. The narrator cites centuries of repression of women as a reason for this. (In the Nara period, however, songs from the anthology called the Manyoshu, indicate men and women had a more equal relationship, which is illustrated by a couple relaxing in a park, while girls dance in the background.) With that exception, women are shown to have had generally difficult lives in the past. scenes of women being supressed are reenacted, such as one where a man eats dinner while his wife sits quietly behind him. Another shows a woman being scolded by her husband. A woman pulling a heavily laden cart up a hill. Women bowing low while a Samurai passes them.
American women get up in the morning at 7AM to get ready for work. Women work in a hearing aid factory. American women at work are given mandatory facilities like medical checkup room, washroom and rooms to take a break. Woman worker at break smokes a cigarette. A nurse checks up on a woman worker in the manufacturing facility.
Personal secretary takes down notes dictated by her boss.Personal secretary guides an American woman to boss's office. American woman has a meeting with the boss. Woman shops at a clothes store helped out by saleswomen.
Importance of American women as workers and women in the work force as well as homemaker and housewife. American woman working as scientist in a laboratory at the Sloan-Kettering Institute. Male scientist injects serum into white mice. Female scientist runs tests. Woman nurse in operation theater. Woman hairdresser works in a salon. Woman farmer driving a tractor on a farm. Woman wearing a protective shield mask operates machinery in a factory. Woman administrative worker files papers in an office filing cabinet. Air hostesses or flight attendant stewardess group lined up for inspection in front of a parked aircraft. Woman homemaker holds a needle and appears to be threading it. A mother bandages the skinned knee of a young boy seated on the side of a bath tub. Woman sewing. A woman sitting in a rocking chair with a cat on her lap, listening to a radio or phonograph. Young American woman with an American man standing on a wooden bridge over a stream.
Hand turns off alarm clock. Girl stretching in bed gets up,gives girl in other bed a poke.pulls cover off,puts on robe and walks out as other gets up. Woman opens venetian blinds and rubs her eyes. Woman's feet getting in to slippers. Woman on edge of bed. She stands,stretches,yawns and walks out. Women assemble and check tiny parts for hearing aids. Girls in rest room sit and read,some talk. One girl primps at mirror. Nurse bandages girl's finger in infirmary.
American woman works as a secretary. Bank executive dictates to secretary,she picks up phone, hands it to him and walks out to front of bank, She greets woman and escorts her into office then walks out. Girl purchases slip from salesclerk.
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