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North Country
UNITED STATES · 2005

North Country

Niki Caro
sexual harassment workplace discrimination labor rights women in mining legal battle
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Synopsis

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

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