A middle-aged businesswoman goes on one of her regular trips to New York City and begins to feel trapped by her life situation as a woman.

A woman tries to convince her husband to quit his exhausting job as a traveling salesman. She reflects on the impossibility of having everything that she wants.

A woman gets married and chooses to leave her busy job as a stenographer. She soon becomes restless in the daily short-lived tedium of housewifery and begins developing feelings for a new man.

A woman works retail and worries about how to make it as an actress in LA. To remedy her social and financial problems, she bonds with a teenage co-worker and dabbles in sex work, despite her nagging concerns.

After World War II, a young woman takes a job working at on oilfield in a desert on the west coast. Once there, she struggles to fit in with her coworkers and can't help but feel out of place in this unfamiliar environment.

In a dystopian society, a young widow is placed in a holding facility to spend her days learning home economics until she's chosen to be the wife of a new man.

Following a breakup, a woman trapped in a nine-to-five office job becomes depressed and begins to consider suicide.

A New Yorker working at a salon spends her time observing people she meets on the subway and at work. Though she meets a lot of people between washing hair and riding the subway to and from work, she avoids talking to them except for the rare occasions when she has to.

The women of a brothel house live under the care of a woman referred to as Mama, while facing the disapproval and disrespect from the public.

A female employee works for a strange, controlling boss. During the course of a meeting at a hotel, the boss subjects her employees to her nefarious whims.