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Jessie Bernard and Edna Rostow discuss problems women face to balance personal and professional life in the United States.
A film about problems and challenges faced by women in the United States in the 1970s, as the traditional roles of women are changing, with more women in the workplace working to balance home life. American sociologist Jessie Bernard and Edna G. Rostow, a mental hygiene consultant at the Yale University, discuss that often women don't think that men are contributing much towards their progress. The pattern of the society being industrialized and nuclear families creating more problem for women to balance between their social and professional work lives. They insist upon development of child care centers and fathers' contribution in the development of children. They discuss about women going to work in urban and industrial areas.
Jessie Bernard and Edna Rostow discuss about sharing of roles and image of working women in old society in the United States
Film about the problems and challenges faced by the changing roles of women in the United States in the 1970s. A American Sociologist Jessie Bernard along with Edna G Rostow a Mental Hygiene consultant at Yale University discuss about the importance of sharing of role between men and women. They state that one has to be aware, and not afraid of the responsibilities in a time when women are holding jobs outside the home and also having home roles. They discuss about the old society and traditional roles of men working outside the home and women as home makers or housewives, along with its pros and corns. The image of working women not opting to marry in olden days. Their views contradict on women not opting to marry for career. Views of women in various activities: Women walk across street. A woman laughs. Women practice dance in a group. A woman works as a dentist or dental hygienist. Two women bird trainers. A woman plays a cello in an orchestra, and another woman sings while holding a microphone. Women U.S. Navy personnel take oath. A woman teaches, while showing words on a blackboard. A woman works in a film edit room, winding and loading motion picture film onto a film reel.
John Kennedy and Nixon debate over the prestige of America prior to the presidential elections in the United States.
Presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the United States. New York Herald Tribune newspaper correspondent Roscoe Drummond asks Senator Kennedy that how can American prestige be measured abroad. Senator Kennedy responds stating that America is identified with the cause of freedom and if other countries have to choose between America and a Communist country, they would choose America. He further speaks that there are many indications that prestige of the United States is not as high as it once was. Kennedy summarizes some of these indications and relates to it by mentioning the example of Sputnik space program by the Soviet Union in 1957 (during the Space Race). Kennedy speaks about the economic development of the Soviet Union. He says the Soviet Union will be ahead of any other country scientifically and militarily by 1970. He mentions votes by different countries in the United Nations dealing with Red China. He says that Guinea and Ghana, two independent countries now are supporting Soviet foreign policy at the UN. NBC correspondent Bill Shadel asks Richard Nixon to speak on the topic. Vice President Nixon responds by speaking about the economic development of the Soviet Union. He speaks that the Soviet Union is a very primitive economy and that the United States is well ahead economically. He says that if the United States is going to maintain its strength and its prestige, they must not only be strong militarily and economically but must be firm diplomatically also. Bill Shadel says that an entire hour was devoted to answering questions from the reporters. He says that each candidate was questioned in turn and each had the opportunity to comment on the answer of his opponent. Shadel says that the reporters were free to ask any question on any subject, neither candidate was given any advance information on any question that would be asked. He says that the fourth debate is scheduled for Friday, October twenty-first.
Jim Crow Laws affecting African Americans from finding justice and equality despite of the 13th and 14th Amendments during the 20th century
Artist impression of the House of Representatives as the United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Images of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. African-American student, victim of the Lamar High School School Bus Attack, listens to Frank Jackson, the attorney defending him, as he lectures him about the history of African-American rights and freedom. Off camera, Jackson quotes the 14th Amendment, saying, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Image of Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. Off camera, Jackson quotes Tillman's comment about "virus of equality..." Artist impression of Black Americans in court during Reconstruction. Students inside the school bus on their way to Lamar High School School before bus attack. Image of Black-Americans inside a moving bus during the 1960s-1970s. Jim Crow signs seen, including a sign reading “White only Ladies Rest Room”. Image of a doctor standing in a door labeled “COLORED” while talking to patient with baby. Image of door with sign that says “White-Trade”. Image of door with sign that says “Colored-Trade”. Image of President Rutherford Hayes. Fire burning. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members in costume hanging (lynching) a Black American. Man menacingly holds a bat and says “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. A view of the United States Supreme Court. Artist Impression of Homer Plessy refusing to move from the White people coach to the Jim Crow train coach in 1896. “Equal justice under law” engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Artist impression of John Marshall Harlan, former Attorney General of Kentucky and great dissenter of cases that restricted civil rights such as “Plessy v. Fegurson”. “But until a majority of judges on the Supreme Court would agree, Black Americans would find little justice” says Frank Jackson.
Teenagers skating at a roller rink, teenage girl walks alone at night and is attacked.
Teenagers skating at a roller rink in the 1970s to disco music. An African American girl approaches her friend, who is taking off her roller skates. The friend, Sandy, who is a white teenage girl with red hair and pigtails, explains that she needs to go home to study for a chemistry test. The African American teenage girl, Glenda, says, "my dad is going to pick me up in a little while, why don't you wait and we'll drive you home? . The white teenage girl politely insists on going ahead, saying, "no, I better get crackin' now." The African-American teenage girl slips and falls in the roller rink and the two girls laugh. View of white teenage girl with red hair in pigtails, walking alone on a secluded road in the evening. White teenage girl with red hair and pigtails looks around at night, becoming afraid of her surroundings and the sounds she hears. White teenage girl with red hair and pigtails running at night in fear. Teenage girl screams at night and lets go of her white roller skates. Roller skates rolling down a path at night and hitting a curb.
People move around and drink wine at The Beverly Wilshire hotel during Heublein rare wine auction in the United States.
Heublein rare wine auction in the United States. A man opens a wine bottle. Another person swirls and tastes a white wine. 1970s and 1980s cars on a road in Los Angeles, driving into Beverly Hills area, and passing a road sign that says "Beverly Hills". A sign by the side of the road reads 'Beverly Hills'.Courtyard of luxury hotel. Rolls Royce Silver Spirit automobile parked. Sign identifies the "Beverly Wilshire." Large sign inside the hall reads: "The Heublein Premier National Auction of Rare Wines (Fifteenth Anniversary)." Tables laden with wine bottles and glasses. Crowd mills about and tastes the various wines. A man sips a glass of wine and speaks about the relationship between markets for California and European wines. A man dressed in 18th century costume holds up a bottles of wine while auctioneer elicits bids. Participants bid by holding up their identification numbers.