So I finally caught up with Agent Carter, and I love every second of it. It blends wonderful female characters with the challenges of being a woman in a man's world. I don't consider myself a radical feminist, but I definitely believe in the equality of all human beings regardless of their skin color, sex, or orientation.
I'm really excited to see how the show deals with women's issues after the war. As horrible as it was, war was actually a great opportunity of equality for women because society as a whole had no choice but to accept women into the workforce to keep the country running. When all the GIs came back, the women were pushed out and forced to go back to their previous lives as secretaries, phone operators, and homemakers. Carter actually says at one point in the pilot, "during the war, I felt I had a purpose." There was a new hierarchy in the workplace: men, cripples, and then women. The newly empowered women were instantly depowered, because who would begrudge their job to a returning GI when so many men didn't make it back?
But that was the 50's right? Everything is different now right?
