Directed by:
Lee GrantScreenplay:
Joyce EliasonCinematography:
Fred MurphyComposer:
Matthew McCauleyCast:
Jean Stapleton, Nancy Beatty, John Putch, Judge Reinhold, Peter Dvorsky, Dinah Manoff, Murray Westgate, Philip Craig, Peter Spence, Morris Buchanan, J. Winston Carroll, Jeannie Elias, Sharon Dyer (more)Plots(1)
A Matter of Sex is the calculatedly misleading title of a based-on-fact TV movie, which originally bore the more suitable title Women of Willmar. In 1976, the women working in a bank in Willmar, Minnesota become incensed because less-qualified men are being promoted over them. Head teller Jean Stapleton, with the help of attorney Peter Dvorsky and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, organizes an employee's union. When the chauvinistic bank officers cause negotiations to break down, Stapleton and seven other female employees go on strike--a job action which lasts for two years, despite political and social pressure from the community. e January 1984 network premiere of A Matter of Sex. (official distributor synopsis)
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Jean Stapleton
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