To finish off Women’s History Month, the 1979 film “Norma Rae” was shown at Cerritos College.

Norma Rae is a southern millworker who works to support her two children.

Both children had different fathers and to protect them she would not talk to them.

But why would she not want her children to know the truth? It would be worse to find out through a stranger than their own mother.

Rae lives at home with her parents and one can still see her struggle to raise her children because she doesn’t ask for any more help from her parents.

A strong woman is one who can speak her mind as what Rae has done so because she does not care to what others think of what she says especially at work with her managers.

This film has shown that women do make a difference and Norma Rae was just an example of what women can do in this world.

Rae first speaks her mind when she discovered that her mother had temporally gone death due to the noise level in the factory which they work at.

The words “it will pass” coming from her manager made her so furious you can see the anger in her eyes as she yelled at him.

It is no wonder actress Sally Field won an Oscar because she played the role of her character with such anger as if it was really happening to her.

Rae is a strong woman who will step up and defend anyone in her family or for a good cause even if it means for her to put her job on the line.

“Do it and I’ll shut up,” says Rae to her manager when she demands longer breaks and a kotex machine in the women’s restroom.

Her back talk does not seem to bother her managers much but when she starts to get her co-workers to wear a union button and attend union meetings the managers make everyone’s life miserable by working longer hours with half the pay.

Whatever they seem to throw at Rae it seems as though she will not give up.

She shows that she has no fear by writing in big letters on a piece of cardboard and jumping on the table for all to see.

All her co-workers finally start to support her by turning off all factory machines.

I thought things were finally turning around and a union was finally forming when all the machines were turned off but I was wrong when they took her to jail for disorderly conduct and was fired.

I’m glad that we have laws to how much our minimum wage should be at so that we are not overworked and underpaid like the people in the movie.

425-373 was the final count between the company vs. the union.

After the long hard struggle Rae made a difference by turning all the workers into a union and getting them the salary they deserve.