The movie was junk.

It didn't say "Based on a true story." It said "Inspired by a true story." There is a difference.

Case closed.

Since you brought up "hazing", I repeat what I've replied to another post:

You're basically saying it's common practice among male co-workers to call each other the male equivalent of "slut" (and worse), smear excrements on their bathroom walls, grab each other by the crotch, choke each other, masturbate onto each others clothes, etc., etc. It's all in good fun, really, and women working in such places just need to develop a sense of humor.

Hazing? No, it's called sexual harrassment.
Hazing is what frat boys do, not grown men who should know better. Also, hazing is NOT part of a new job. Where would you ever get that idea from? You must have had some crappy jobs (excuse the pun).
You sound like a total misogynist.
I just hope that one of your loved ones isn't harrassed one day. Are you going to claim that she deserved it?
As for your assertion that these women should have carried mace around w. them...who carries mace to work??? Yeah, it wouldn't have happened again, b/c the woman would have been arrested for assault.
What is this....1955??

I'm not man-hater, but I've gotta say thank GOD for sexual-harrassment policies in workplaces. Why should any woman (or any PERSON for that matter??) have to carry mace to work to protect themselves from their COWORKERS??? That is just ridiculous to even suggest as a potential solution.

I liked this movie, if you just ignore that it is "inspired by" a true story, and view it as a MOVIE, it's not so bad. Preachy at times, but all-in-all the story was good, the relationship between the mother and her kids was realistic, and some of the moments between the women and their male co-workers was just cringe-worthy. Personally, I'm very glad that sexual harrassment suits like that one have been filed & won so that I don't ever have to deal with events like that in my workplace.

This looks like Manbearpig Central!!

I agree, Jerryripple! In fact, at my elementary school, where 95% of the teachers are women, we make sure that all the new male teachers (the few that there are) know their place in the pecking order. We leave boxes of Tampax in their mailboxes, for example. Sometimes we take the Tampaxes out of their wrappers and hang them in the doorway of a male teacher's classroom. The kids, especially the fifth graders, find this hilarious, especially when we stick a maxi pad on his back for good measure! We also wait until a male teacher is in the Xerox room by himself, then we sneak up on him, lock the door, and try to stick a buttplug up his you-know-what (an older, mannish, unattractive teacher is assigned this task of course, and she makes sure to eat a head of garlic beforehand). Then we leave him there and lock the door from the outside, so that he will be late to class and get in trouble. Once, we decided to have some extra fun with this one guy (who had the nerve to take a kindergarten job, if you can believe it.) We called his house and left a long, hysterical answering machine message about the pregnancy test being positive. His wife was livid and he almost got divorced because of it, only the a$$hole had to complain to the principal, who told his wife what really happened. After that, we decided to fix him for good. He got USED Tampaxes hanging in his doorway the morning after he ratted on us, and we wrote "RAT" and "FAG" on the wall with feces. We also planted a stash of gay porn in his classroom, at his house, and on both his work and home computers, and enrolled him for a life time membership in the North American Association for Man-Boy Love. Since he had no sense of humor, he quit and filed an EEOC complaint against us. The nerve of him. It was all in good fun, pretty typical, really. Hey, you can't expect to enter a workplace that is almost entirely female and not get a little resentment, right? I mean, it is very, very difficult to find a good elementary teaching position these days, so men must realize that we women are going to get mighted pissed off if they try to take jobs away from us. These guys need to stop whining and take it like the men that they are.

"So she told her old school father with his old world beliefs that she didn't know who the father was because she felt that would be better than telling her parents that it was date-rape??? And she waited to tell the truth until 15 years later when she was in court where it would sound better than admitting that while still in school she had so many sexual partners that she had no idea who it could be???? "

It's relatively common for rape victims to feel shame for what happened to them. I can understand not wanting to tell anyone (and I'm a dude)