Rachel is een succesvolle carrièrevrouw die op het punt staat promotie te maken. Via haar werkgever, een technologiebedrijf in New York, bemachtigt ze een felbegeerde plek in het ‘Pegasus Womb Center’. Zij bieden koppels een gemakkelijke en handige uitkomst voor zwangerschappen door middel van kunstmatige baarmoeders, oftewel pods. Haar partner Alvy, een botanicus met liefde voor de natuur, geeft de voorkeur aan een natuurlijke zwangerschap. Alvy’s liefde voor Rachel zet hem ertoe een sprong in het diepe te wagen en zo begint hun rollercoaster naar het ouderschap in deze nieuwe technologische wereld van voortplanting, maar tegen welke prijs?

Tess is een secretaresse die graag hogerop wil. Ze komt te werken voor de succesvolle zakenvrouw Katherine die Tess' goede zakelijke ideeën en inzicht zeer waardeert en haar belooft dat als ze zo doorgaat ze Tess wel wil helpen om carriere te maken. Maar tijdens een skivakantie breekt Katherine haar been, en zo komt Tess erachter Katherine haar ideeën inpikt om zelf met de eer te gaan strijken. Tess besluit dan om zich voor te doen als Katherine, die toch wel even uitgeschakeld is, en de keiharde zakenwereld binnen te dringen met de hulp van zakenman Jack.

A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.

Felix en Martha, de twee nakomelingen van de legendarische seriemoordenaar The Skinner of Mons, worstelen met de groteske erfenis die hen is nagelaten. Terwijl Martha een ondergeschikte schoonmaakbaan heeft, zet Felix het schrikbewind van zijn vader voort. Maar na een brutale aanval op het werk vervalt Martha al snel in waanzin en merkt dat ze in het reine moet komen met het beruchte bloed dat door haar aderen stroomt.

Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout several decades. Recently, their lives have become mired in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs, unethical business practices, and a dark secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin.

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

Women cope with various problems while earning a living in the city.

A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.

Continuing the tradition of national artist Ishmael Bernal's benchmark film Working Girls after 25 years, Working Girls of 2010 depicts the role of women in the new millennium. Seven women of different backgrounds, stories and personalities entwined in a colorful story of family, love and life.

Stagiair Margaux op de spoed dienst hulp kan er niet meer tegen. Tijdens weer een zeer hectische en geduldige dienst vergeet ze een dakloze vrouw op een brancard, die vervolgens sterft. Geschokt heeft Margaux geen andere keuze dan door te gaan met werken. Maar plotseling begint haar lichaam ongecontroleerd bloed te zweten.

During a trip to the Philippines, middle-aged Norwegian Lars has met the Filipina he wants to share his life with, but to his surprise she turns him down. Lars now has to face his own prejudices and deal with this uncomfortable situation.

The documentary by Mari Soppela focuses on glass ceilings, a metaphor for the invisible borders between men and women in work life. Talk about glass ceilings is usually associated with women’s opportunities to advance to well paid managerial positions, but the documentary connects itself more broadly to the structural problems of work life from women’s perspective. Glass ceilings are long trials about equal pay, having to continually prove one’s skills, and 85-cent euros. The topic cannot be handled without intersectional crossings: what are invisible glass ceilings for some, are solid concrete for others.

Amidst the daily din of the local trains in Calcutta, a lonely working woman in her late fifties finds herself falling in love with the voice of the railway announcer.

Lizette, a waitress in a donut shop in small town has a milestone birthday coming up that she's not happy about. The only thing that could make it better is if her husband Terry buys her tickets to a Dan Hill concert in Toronto she wants to see. The problem is he will only go if his friend Simon goes and only if Simon has a date. The only person Lizette can find is Cheryl-Ann, a permanently happy, innocent waitress at the same donut shop, whom Lizette can't stand. When the night finally comes, things don't go as planned.

Famous dancer and film actress Fong Nan (Mao Mei) desires both a career and a family after marrying an eminent doctor (Guan Shan), who, however, wants her to be a stay-at-home wife. They are on the brink of divorce when he finds out she secretly rehearses for her dance and movie…Taking inspirations from Hollywood musical films, the movie is beautifully directed and meticulously produced by Yuen Yang-an and his Sun Sun Film Enterprises. While most films at the time usually depict how grassroots people rise above adversity, this one tells the story of a famed actress who thrives for success and never gives up on her artistic ambition. This reflects that women's liberation and employment was a dominating theme in left-wing movies. The finale was shot in Eastman colour negative film, which was rare before mid-60s given the limited technical resources in Hong Kong film industry, and thus a valuable record in the city's cinematic history.