Sexual Harassment In 'Glory'

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Once Josey Aimes manages to run away from her abusive husband in 1989; she takes her two children, Sammy and Karen with her back to her hometown in northern Minnesota. She goes on to live with her parents, Alice and Hank. Since Josey was pregnant with her first child Sammy while she was still a teenager and Sammy’s father was never known, Hank thinks of her daughter as promiscuous and is therefore not proud of her. Everyone else in town shares the same of opinion of Josey and they do not want to be associated with her. She only has two friends Glory Dodge who works at the local mines and Kyle, who is Glory’s husband. Glory helps Josey get a job at the mines-the main source of revenue for the town. As a result of the bad blood between Josey …show more content…

Bobby's wife publicly rebukes Josey and consequently Sammy is inclined to believe the rumors that his mother is in fact a loose woman. The mine’s board of directors dismisses Josey’s complaints of the treatment of women in the mines and after Bobby sexually assaults her at work, Josey finally resigns from her job. She then requests Kyle and Glory’s friend, Bill White (a lawyer), to help her take legal action against the mining company. Bill advises her that she would need to get backing from the other female miners to increase her chances of winning the case. This would make it the country’s first ever class-action sexual-harassment court case. However, the female miners are not so quick to join the case because they don’t want to risk losing their jobs or escalating the harassment. Josey, furthermore, finds out that Glory is suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease otherwise known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
Hank is not happy with Josey's decision and because of his endless criticisms of his daughter, Alice decides to leave him. Josey hopes to talk to the miners and explain why she is filing a lawsuit during a union meeting that Hank later shows up to. The men however shut her down and insult her but her father comes to her defense. He admonishes his co-workers for being ill-mannered towards Josey and

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