Leadership in the Media

This section features any form of Media that informs about leadership and gender related issues that is considered by CLW to be outstanding and of significance in adding to the discourse about leadership. 

Movies

North Country 

 

 

 

Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. was the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States, filed in 1988 on behalf of Lois Jenson and other female workers at the EVTAC mine in Eveleth, Minnesota on the state's northern Mesabi Range, which is part of the Iron Range. The case was documented in the 2002 book Class Action and a 2005 fictionalized film version, North Country.

Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris of the Wellesley Centers for Women MA, USA

 

Veronica Guerrin

 

 

 

 

 

 

Veronica Guerin is a 2003 film directed by Joel Schumacher. The movie is based on the true story of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin.

Veronica Guerin had studied accountancy and political research and had founded a public relations company before she joined the Sunday Business Post and Sunday Tribune. In 1994, she began to write about criminals for Irish newspaper the Sunday Independent. She used nicknames for underworld figures to avoid Irish libel laws. When she began to cover drug dealers, she received numerous death threats.

Guerin was killed on June 26, 1996, when she was gunned down at close range while waiting in her car at a traffic light just outside Dublin. She was 37 years-old, married with a 6-year-old son.

Her death led to Ireland's largest criminal investigation, resulting in over 150 arrests.  The Irish parliament enacted the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 and the Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996, so that assets purchased with money obtained through crime could be seized by the government. This led to the formation of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).