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Mothers Are People

1974 7 min
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Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she speaks for many other women. "The powers that be know that women do work, but they turn a deaf ear." Apart from "discrimination against women," Joy sees the absence of universal day care as a loss for children too.

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Mothers Are People

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Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she speaks for many other women. "The powers that be know that women do work, but they turn a deaf ear." Apart from "discrimination against women," Joy sees the absence of universal day care as a loss for children too.

  • director
    Kathleen Shannon
  • producer
    Kathleen Shannon
  • editing
    Kathleen Shannon
  • executive producer
    Len Chatwin
  • photography
    Robert Nichol
  • sound
    Gui Bernardes
    Ron Seltzer
  • re-recording
    Jean-Pierre Joutel

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