A Girdle to Set You Free

Here is a scene from Mona Lisa Smile which I think relates a lot to our recent discussions on Feminism (the first half of the clip is more relevant than the second half). The film is set in a private women's college during the 1950s.

"Watson tries to open her students' minds to their freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. She encourages her students to believe in themselves, to study to become career professionals, and to improve their economic futures. She uses her art teachings as a vehicle to put across her opinion to the young women that her students need not conform to stereotypes of women made by society, or the roles made for them by society, as women born to become housewives and mothers. She feels that women could do more things in life than solely adopt the roles of wives and mothers.
In [this] scene of the movie, she shows her students four newspaper ads, and asks them to question what the future will think of the idea that women are born into the roles of wives and mothers." (Wikipedia)