Equal Means Equal
Equal Means Equal
| 27 August 2016 (USA)
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An unflinching look at how women are treated in the USA today examining issues such as workplace harassment, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault. It shows how discriminatory attitudes still prevail and influence society and argues for the need to improve laws that claim to protect women.

Reviews
EarDelightBase Waste of Money.
GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious
Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Noelle The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.
grumpyoldwizard11 Biggest pile of propaganda garbage ever... Leftist video vomit, would have liked to have learned something, but once again its all about the men crushing the souls of the poor downtrodden women. They should get paid the exact same, even if they suck at their job, should be fully paid when they decide to get pregnant, the rape "epidemic". Funny, not a single word about the real rape epidemic overseas... Wow, did make it to 5 lines... Here, instead of watching this, go cut off your man parts and stab yourself in the eyes and ears repeatedly...
mitchmitchell The essence of a Universe is hard to understand if your telescope only looks at one star in the sky.Kamala Lopez tries very hard to make us understand an interesting topic from many vantage-points, but fails in delivering a broad and balanced documentary for which this topic clearly needs and deserves. The main problem is it begins with an assumption that; equality does not exist. The documentary then takes us on a tour-de-force of heart-string-pulling, instead of focusing on global issues affecting the entirety of human equality in all countries.Instead of anecdotal individual stories of how people feel about something which happened only to them, we seek actual documented facts and statistics in totality across the globe. What is also skewed, is that instead of getting both sides, Kamala Lopez decides to focus only in something which supports the premise for which it then propagates.As such, large portions of this documentary could have been cut and replaced with the larger global picture of equality - which is significantly more important and worthy of our attention.I hope if Kamala Lopez attempts to look at the topic again, she will buy a bigger telescope and then, we will see something worthy of our attention.
catbetts Equal Means Equal has been described as an unflinching look at the current state of gender inequity, and it truly is unflinching. It's powerful and emotionally raw, exposing the nefarious webs of discrimination against women in an extremely well organized and pointed manner. The most poignant and hard hitting interview of the film is one of a young rape victim describing how she had to walk down her street, bloody, while people stared and no one asked her if she needed help or if she was okay. Gender based discrimination and violence are so everyday and expected, we almost expect this type of treatment for victims and survivors. This should be required viewing for students and legislators.
equitysue Kamala Lopez and crew do a wonderful job on this 90 minute documentary illustrating the status of women (pay inequity, sexual harassment and domestic violence in the workplace and at home, poverty, the sex trade, and the erosion of reproductive rights to expose a system that repeatedly fails women. Over 80 people are interviewed in this award-winning documentary (2016 Traverse City Film Festival) being released September 6th, 2016.It is fast paced and the graphics are excellent - particularly those depicting the wage disparity based on race that women in the workplace experience. Other statistics are dis-aggregated as well showing disparities based on race. A much needed addition to the arsenal we can use to succeed in adding women to the U.S. Constitution in the form of the Equal Rights Amendment, a process begun in the early 1900's and still not brought to fruition.