There was the post about the women at work and her asking about advancements and being laughed at when saying "yes I plan on having a family." But to look at the glass ceiling in a different light…if Willy Wonka was a women or if Charlie was a girl would they have gone out of the glass ceiling at the end of the movie. I mean come on the girls were out of the running early anyway. Yes the Augustus got cut first but that was because he had poor canter of gravity. What does it say that Wonka in the end chose a boy and that the glass ceiling didn’t affect Charlie’s rise to the top of the employment ladder.
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To take this a little farther, Charlie is also a white male. In society males are viewed as superior to women and whites superior to all others. Did you notice that all the workers are umpalumpas? Which could represent people of other races, and how they could never rise above the glass ceiling or knock down the concrete walls. They are stuck working in that position for the rest of their life.
Going off of the comment before this, the umpalumpas in the original movie were played by different people, but in the new movie it was one person who played a small role. Are the Umpalumpas in the new movie the token character? I would assume so based of that they were there to assist Wonka in helping the children who lost or working in the factory for little to no pay.
Well, if Wonka was still a man and Charlie was a girl, I think that Wonka would have been able to go through the glass ceiling but Charlie would have slammed into the ceiling. In reality the glass ceiling and the fact that Chalie was a boy, a poor boy at that, was to show that you can break out of your class. So a lower class citizen could move up in the world and become a middle or even upper class citizen. I don't think it was neccesarily a gender issue.
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