Top Girls

The story of a successful career-driven superwoman in the early years of the 1980s in Margaret Thatcher’s England. Marlene has just earned a big promotion over a male co-worker. She and a restaurant full of history’s most famous women celebrate the virtue and bemoan the sacrifices required to be a “top girl” in a man’s world. In the episodes that follow, we meet many of the women (and girls) in Marlene’s world and learn the steep costs that often followed success of women in the 80s. It’s been 35 years yet Top Girls remains surprisingly relevant filled with questions we still are trying to answer.