(Self-media/Rice Culture) Recently, the topic of women in the workplace has become a hot topic in society, what should we do about the discrimination and unspoken rules that women encounter in the workplace?
Today we recommend a movie that will tell us some answers. This movie is the story of how women can achieve counterattack after encountering discrimination, which is of certain inspirational significance for women in the workplace today.
The name of the film is "Hidden Identity", set in the 1960s, telling the story of three low-level black women working at NASA through their own struggles to finally break the prejudice and discrimination counterattack, the film is based on real events in the United States.
The protagonists of the movie, we call them respectively: big girl, second girl, third girl. The story begins with the second lady, why start with the second lady, because the second lady stands in the C position, she is the protagonist of the story. (Self-media/rice culture)
When the second girl was a small child, she showed an amazing talent in mathematics. He was admitted to the best black high school in the country in elementary school and was given a full scholarship. Go to school with a group of older children, solve problems better than them, you say angry people?
In the blink of an eye, the kung fu two grew up, divorced, and became a single mother. This is the logic of the movie, not taking the usual path, opening and closing the eyes is half a life, not as long as the novel.
The second lady works at NASA, and every day she commutes to work with her two colleagues, the eldest and third girls, and the car often breaks down.
The eldest lady is the temporary director of NASA and has a more stable personality; the third lady has a more fiery personality, and the second lady has a more moderate personality. Because of an unexpected opportunity, the second lady was recommended by the big girl to go to the space project team of the unit as a calculator. (Self-media/rice culture)
On the first day here, the second lady really felt the discrimination in the workplace, from female supervisors to male colleagues, from skin color to gender, the discriminated eyes were everywhere.
Many even think of her as a cleaner.
The big boss was even more suspicious when he saw her. (Self-media/rice culture)
As soon as the two men arrived, they encountered an urgent mission, the United States to confront the Soviet Union, preparing to carry out a plan to send people into space.
The second lady encountered a lot of unfair treatment at work, including the deliberate difficulty of male colleagues and the harsh treatment of the boss. However, these things in the field of work are still relatively easy to deal with, and what makes her feel most difficult to accept is the discrimination caused by her identity. The coffee pot used by the second lady is disliked by others and no longer used, and a toilet of color is specially set up in the unit, and the toilet of white people cannot be mixed. As a result, the second lady had to run a long distance every day to go to the toilet. (Self-media/rice culture)
Finally unable to bear the discrimination of the second lady completely broke out, after a hoarse accusation, the boss who was shocked by the second lady tore off the discrimination label on the coffee pot, picked up the iron rod and smashed the sign on the toilet.
Through their hard work and talent, the second lady has made the whole system fair to these discriminated groups.
"Everyone's urine is a color", which is probably the most emotional line in the whole movie. The success of the erzhu's rights is not because of the tearful angry accusations of the erzhu, but because the erzhu have proved their prejudices wrong with their ability, and that women, including people of color, are equally hardworking and talented. Speaking with facts is the best proof.
Let's talk about the big guy, who used to be the interim director of NASA, but no matter how hard she worked, she couldn't get promoted because people of color were not considered by the fixed supervisor. (Self-media/rice culture)
As technology advanced, IBM invented computers that could replace manual computing, and their entire computing groups were even in danger of losing their jobs.
But in the face of this competition between man and machine, the big guy knows that this is the trend of the times, and she keenly observes this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because she knows that all machines have to be operated by people. So the big guy began to teach himself computer knowledge.
Finally, the opportunity came. When the IBM machine failed, even ibmim's technicians were at a loss, the big guy made the machine start running through his own research. (Self-media/rice culture)
The big guy mastered the technology of machine operation, and then sure enough, the computer replaced the human operation, and the big guy also successfully counterattacked, and she also let all the girls in the computing group master this technology in advance, and finally successfully led the team to transform.
Finally, talk about the three women, the third lady is the youngest of the three women, she herself has a talent for engineering technology, the second lady has a more casual and free personality, dare to say dare to do, like to flirt with handsome men, from white police to white pilots she does not let go. A Jewish male engineer ignited her dream of being an engineer.
At that time, women and blacks could not be engineers. She also got into an argument with her own boyfriend, who believed that the oppressed could only fight for equality through struggle. This is also the most core idea hidden in this film: if you suffer unfair treatment, do you gain rights by fighting and forcing society to change the rules for you; or do you take the initiative to change the rules for you by making achievements through hard work, making others look at you with admiration, and letting others respect you from the bottom of your heart?
In order to get an engineer's degree, She studied hard while fighting against the unfair social system. She went to court and fought for her right to study.
In fact, this is also the idea that this film is trying to convey: moderate reformists are more able to make social progress than radical revolutionaries. After all, each of us has the right to fight for it on our own.
In the end, through their own efforts and struggles, the three women got the first black female engineer degree.
The film is a standard Hollywood melody film, which is completely in line with the current mainstream American ideology. The three protagonists, each with its own characteristics, each with its own story line, intersects with each other at the same time, and the emotional line also maps the theme. The three protagonists are constantly escalating, reversing and climaxing one after the other, a very standard three-act play.
From the social level, we see that the second lady has won the respect and trust of everyone by relying on her own talent and diligence; the big girl has improved by her own diligence and ability to learn new technologies; and the third lady has gained a new identity by relying on her own diligence and courage to break the rules. Three counterattacks in life, diligence and hard work are the core parts of success.
Simple resistance can only change for a while, but it cannot change for a lifetime. Discrimination still exists in every corner of society, because if you have not changed, then discrimination will not change, even if they will hang on their lips, they will hang on their hearts.
If you feel discriminated against, try to use your talents to prove them wrong, and only then will respect and equality actually come.