society also had a negative thinking about her because she did not tell who her son’s father and she had a daughter with different father so they thought that she’s
a whore. After there were many testimonies from Josey and Pearson’s side, the Judge decided that she won the court and she gets a modest financial settlement
and the women’s sexual harassment policy for women. North Country reflects women’s struggle in order to find the equal
treatments in work and sexual treatments. The researcher sees it as the reflection of women’s movements in the second wave feminism that is refer to a period of
feminist activity began in the late of 1960s and 1970s. According to http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiSecond-wave_feminism, second wave feminism
concerned with independence and greater political action to improve women’s rights and concerned with the issue of economic equality including the ability to
have careers in addition to motherhood, or the rights to have children between the
genders and addressed the rights of female minorities.
B. Research Questions
The researcher formulates the problem statements as follows: 1. How do women stereotypes lead to women sexual discrimination
in North Country? 2. What are Josey Aimes’ efforts to fight the discriminative attitude
of the male workers in North Country?
C. Objective of Study
The main objectives of this thesis are to find the solution to the problems as arranged on the problem statements. The objectives are:
1. To explain how women stereotypes lead to women sexual discrimination in North Country.
2. To explain what are Josey Aimes’ efforts to fight the discriminative attitude of the male workers in North Country.
D. Scope of Study
To limit the discussion in order to avoid deviation and rambling analysis, the research focuses or objected only on the protagonist character’s life, especially
at the mine, Josey Aimes Charlize Theron that is related to the research questions.
E. Benefits of the Study
This research is expected to have the benefits for the readers and contributions for other researchers who are interested in the same field. The
significances are: 1.
To give additional information about the struggle of women that lead to sexual discrimination in the workplace as the impact of patriarchy line.
2. To give contribution for other researchers, especially for Sebelas Maret
University students who take American Study and interested in the same
object, about sexual harassment at the work place.
F. Methodology
1. Type of Research
The type of this research was library research. For most of the activities are done by library orientation by reading and watching the film. The form
of this research is descriptive qualitative. In qualitative research, the data are gathered in the term of words or sentences or pictures. To support the
presentation, the researcher needs to use the notes which describe the real situation.
“Data yang dikumpulkan terutama berupa kata-kata, kalimat atau gambar yang memiliki arti lebih dari sekedar angka atau
frekuensi. Peneliti menekankan catatan yang menggambarkan situasi sebenarnya guna mendukung penyajian data”. Sutopo,
2002: 35
2. Data
The main source data of this research was the North Country film VCD Video Compact Disc, which was directed by Niki Caro, produced in
2005 by Nana Greenwald, released by Warner Bros Pictures that was associated with Participant Production. It casted Charlize Theron as the
main character, Josey Aimes, Frances McDormand as Glory, Sissy Spacek as Alice Aimes, Woody Harrelson as Bill White, Jeremy Renner as Bobby
Sharp and so on. The film script was written by Michael Seitzman based on a true story and inspired by a book entitled Class Action by Clara
Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler. a. The main data of this research were the dialogues, characters’
facial expression, characters’ attitudes, and camera angles of North Country that are related with the problem statements.
b. The supporting data are taken from other sources such as film’s script, articles, websites and other source that are related to the
research.
G. Theoretical Approach
