Directed by Niki Caro, “North Country” is a movie about the battle against sexual harassment and a group of women’s fight for equal opportunities at work.Josey Aimes, played by Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, is a single mother in need of a good job in order to feed and support her two children. After being raped by her high school teacher and abused by her husband, Aimes flees with her children to her hometown in northern Minnesota.

It is there that a friend persuades her to work in the iron mine, where there is a 30-to-one male-to-female worker ratio. The money is good and allows her to purchase a home, but the harassment is too much to bear.

The treatment the women go through is unacceptable. They are treated like animals. Based on a true story, the men in this movie degrade the women to objects.

What some of the people think of as practical jokes hurts the victims more than they know. It is not fair that the women have to go to work terrified that they might get raped or harassed. They have to worry about what is written about them on the wall or what disgusting things might be left in their lockers.

Another theme in the movie is the bond between father and daughter. Aimes’ father also works for the mine, and is disgraced when his daughter takes the job. He was still angry with her for her teenage pregnancy, unknowing that it is due to a rape.

As the movie poster says, she goes in to make a living, but she ends up making history by helping to create a sexual harassment law.

This movie shows how animalistic some people can be and the unfair treatment of and discrimination against people in the workplace.

This movie teaches how to stand up for what you think is right. If people stand as a group, they are unstoppable, but when the group separates, they fall as prey. Stick together, and stand up for what’s right.