Throughout this film there is a clear battle of the sexes that can be seen in the dialogue that is used between the characters. Hildy is working in a predominately male workplace where she is one of the few woman who are respected enough by the men in the company. There are multiple times throughout the movie where when try to cut Hildy off or manipulate her with their words because of the status as a male in society. Even though they all respect Hildy as a writer they still see her as a woman that can be manipulated.
This can also be seen the couple of times a woman other than Hildy comes into the scene and tries to make a point. When this happen the men in the room quickly shut they down and won't let them get a single word in no matter what. No matter how important the information the woman is trying to get across is, the men keep shutting her out with their words. Hildy is the only one that can get the men of the film to shut up and listen, but there are still a couple times where another man has to come to her rescue to back her up because even though she has some respect she is still a woman in their eyes.
In this movie it is shown through the dialogue given to men and woman how each sex stood up in their role in society. The men always dominated. Even if a woman moved up enough to earn some respect she still was seen as weaker and easily manipulated and therefore "needs saving" by some male character.
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