'Working American Women' is a dramatic enactment that shows daily activities of working women in America as members of the work force and in housewife and homemaker roles. Women work in Sonotone hearing aid manufacturing factory. Women workers freshen up and put on makeup after work. Factory workers punch their timecards before they leave the factory. Female bank secretary prepares to leave bank at 5 PM. Secretary meets her boyfriend outside the bank. A lab assistant puts away a box of mice and tidies the laboratory before leaving. American factory worker picks up her husband from another factory. American man and woman both reach home along with their two children.
Film compares the lives of four American working woman who have different jobs. American woman homemaker or housewife makes dinner as her husband helps around the home. Children help out with simple house hold chores. Two American women stay together in a Fellowship House of YWCA. American woman in her home helped by her mother. The woman checks her bank and insurance papers. Woman and her husband listen to music played on a phonograph record player. American woman sleeps in her YWCA home.
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.
Working American women at home using modern conveniences in the post war era. American woman puts meat loaf in oven. Man screws a towel rack into place. Housewife at oven as daughter comes in kitchen, talks to mother, then leaves. Girl and boy children in 1950s era family set dinner table. Sign 'Fellowship House YWCA'. Girl walks up path towards house. Girl irons dress. Other girl enters and she crosses room and sits on sofa. A man’s photograph is displayed behind the girl ironing clothes. College banners from Columbia, NYU and Fordham decorate the living room. Girl files her nails. A framed college graduation photo on display. Woman walks up path into house. Father sits in easy chair as she walks in and kisses him on forehead. Woman enters kitchen and takes cookie from jar. She walks to mother at sink and kisses her. Woman inserts eggbeater attachment to Mixmaster mixer, pushes button and eggbeater spins. A woman sits on her desk. Woman reads her family’s monthly bills before writing checks. A music appreciation group comprised of young people listen to music in a living room. A man talks to a woman knitting. Music record spins on vinyl LP phonograph record player. Couple sits on couch. Girl strokes a kitten in lap as they listen to music. Kitten jumps up. View of a living room console radio and a man seated in the same room reading the newspaper. Woman knits. View of a Movie theater marquee advertising movies "Angel on the Amazon" and "The Last Bandit." Young woman and young woman couple on a date stand in front of theater at the ticket box office. Boy steps to movie theater box office ticket window then takes the girl’s hand as they walk in. Scenes return to house, with young woman as she reads in bed, puts book away, turns off radio and light, and goes to sleep. Husband and wife are asleep. Wife turns in her sleep.
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