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GENDER STUDIES MIDTERM ASSIGNMENT
ALTYNAI BOLOTBEK KYZY
Student number: 2230130362
‘On the Basis of Sex’
Movie review
The film is based on the facts of the biography of American lawyer Ruth Bader
Ginsberg. The story tells about the beginning of her career at Harvard School and
before her first case on sexual discrimination.
Is it difficult to be a woman in this world? What does it feel like to be on the sidelines
always and in everything? Who discovered distant galaxies, was the first to fly into space,
discovered the laws of gravity, etc., etc.? Men! They are all around, they are everywhere in a
woman's life. There is no hiding from them.
A film exclusively for feminists?
From the beginning of the film, we see a promising, young, ambitious girl who believes
that hard work and diligence really play a big role. However, at first it becomes clear that this
is a 'male' world, where women are treated not so much with disdain as with condescension.
Throughout the whole picture, we see how this very world is rapidly breaking the main
