#Best chick flick movies ever series#
This 2021 Netflix comedy-drama series stars 63-year-old Andie McDowell as Paula. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive This sardonic series takes aim at every traditional female stereotype with humor and gritty optimism. There are 40 episodes, so you can lose yourself in this entertaining series and learn some Danish as you go. The series follows her midlife career, love life, ex-husbands, parenting failures and triumphs. She’s also a schoolteacher who really, really likes sex. In this Danish Netflix series, Rita (Mille Dinesen) is an outspoken, rebellious older single mother of three adult children. The film’s revelations about sexual assault disinformation empowers all of us to be better mothers, grandmothers and advocates for women’s equal rights and safety at home, work and school. This formidable documentary by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, featuring an original song by Lady Gaga, follows the path of three female college students as they advocate for federal legislation to prevent, track and punish sexual assault on campuses - an epidemic that educational institutions are often desperate to cover up. Knowledge is power, and advocacy can happen at any age. The Hunting Ground (2015, 1 hour 43 minutes)
She led a team of journalists and lawyers in a race with The New York Times to expose Richard Nixon’s massive cover-up of government secrets. But despite having no training in journalism or business, and with four young children, she became one of the world’s most influential publishers in her 40s after her father died and her husband committed suicide. Graham was raised to be a Washington socialite and mother. With Meryl Streep as legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Carrie Coon as reporter Meg Greenfield, this is the true story of the first female publisher of a major American newspaper. This stunning achievement restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world. Three brilliant, determined African American women at NASA - Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson - fight racism and sexism to be the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. She performed into her 70s, before dying in 2018, at age 76. The winner of 18 Grammys and countless other awards, she was the youngest person to receive Kennedy Center Honors and the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Franklin was close to Martin Luther King Jr. In 1967, she recorded “Respect,” which Rolling Stone called the greatest song of all time. Franklin had released nine albums by the time she was 22. She had two children by the time she was 14, though she never revealed their father’s identity.
Franklin’s mother, a talented singer in her own right, died when Aretha was 10, and her domineering minister father managed her early career. All are available via Netflix or Amazon Prime!Īretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, overcame enough sexism, personal trauma and racism to make most of our lives look like cakewalks.
Remember, though, that while men have bankrolled and directed most of the movies we see - which means they’ve had their thumbs on the happy-endings scale - in real life, we control the endings to our own stories. So naturally, stories of women’s triumphs involve a degree of blood, sweat, tears and even death. And because nothing about being a woman is simple, our opponents come in all shapes, sizes and curses, some purely cultural and some purely mental. Female empowerment is based on grit. Come chart a powerful course by curling up on the couch and watching strong, mature female characters crush their evil opponents.
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