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Women at Work
195822 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Gordon Sparling
Production: Gordon SparlingNicholas Balla
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration.
An introduction to the employment picture in Canada in the late 1950s, designed to inform potential immigrants of job opportunities existing for women. The film reviews many fields of work in which women are engaged, ranging from the highly specialized to the unskilled, and shows much of it being performed by women who have come to Canada from many different lands. Placement services and information services established to help newly arrived immigrants are shown in operation.
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Subject categories
- Women > Cultural GroupsWorking Life
- Work and Labour Relations > Cultural GroupsImmigrantsWomen
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Immigration Experience and Social AdjustmentWomen immigrantsWork
Credits
- director
- Gordon Sparling
- producer
- Gordon Sparling
- editing
- Gordon Sparling
- executive producer
- Nicholas Balla
- photography
- Grant Crabtree
- sound
- George Croll
- re-recording
- George Croll
- music
- Eldon Rathburn