Essay development; For my essay I'm looking at the development of a stereotype relating to women's place within the workplace, arguing the point that women are denigrated to submissive positions due to the representation of powerful women as manipulative through the sexualisation of their bodies.
Im analysing the films 'Working Girl' (1988) which portrays a powerful woman as the stereotypical femme fatale, her power genereated from the evil use of her body to deceive men. This connection between female desire, their body and the attainmnet of power is an attitude that I believe continues to exist today, heightened by the overt sexualisation of the femle body is mass media.

sources include both fashion, feminist observation and film critics.