The Glass Ceiling: What is it? And how do you break it?
The documentary by Mari Soppela focuses on glass ceilings, a metaphor for the invisible borders between men and women in work life. Talk about glass ceilings is usually associated with women’s opportunities to advance to well paid managerial positions, but the documentary connects itself more broadly to the structural problems of work life from women’s perspective. Glass ceilings are long trials about equal pay, having to continually prove one’s skills, and 85-cent euros. The topic cannot be handled without intersectional crossings: what are invisible glass ceilings for some, are solid concrete for others.
Mari Soppela
Writer, Director
Rebecca Burke
Self
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Anna Cendalska
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Mervi Lampinen
Self
Françoise N'Thépé
Self
Aksel Põder
Self
Miyoko Kojima
Self
Sheila Aly
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