Abstrak This research focused on the patriarchy that causes stereotype which leads to the sexual discrimination and then the efforts of women to fight the male discriminative attitudes. The researcher formulated two research questions: “How does women stereotypes lead to women sexual discrimination in North Country?” and “What are Josey Aimes’ efforts to fight the discriminative attitude of the male workers in North Country?” The purposes of this research were to explain how North Country film reflects the stereotypes that lead to women discrimination and how this film reflects Josey Aimes’ struggles and efforts to fight against the discriminative attitudes of the male workers. This research was conducted within the boundaries of American studies. The main source of data in this research was North Country, a film by Niki Caro that was produced in 2005 by Warner Bros Pictures that was associated with Participant Production. The main data of this research were the dialogues, characters’ facial expression, characters’ attitudes and beliefs, and cinematographic elements of North Country that were related to the research questions in this research. The supporting data of this research were taken from North Country film script, books, articles, and the Internet’s sources that were related to the research questions. From the analysis, the researcher draws two conclusions. First, North Country shows the patriarchal system was the main cause of the stereotype of women that directly lead to women sexual discrimination both in society, especially in the workplace. The stereotype of women as the pretty sex, sexual object and weaker power than the men caused the women sexual discrimination in every aspect. For example; women are restricted to work outside, often beaten by their husbands and in the workplace women also have to accept male workers discriminative attitudes such as being sexually harassed, they were seduced to make love with the male workers, being mocked in vulgar words, and being intimidated whenever they want to get free from the harassment. Secondly, the efforts of an ordinary woman, Josey Aimes as the main character in North Country to fight the discrimination attitude of the male workers. She went to the owner and employers office in order to report and to get the solution of the discriminative attitude, she hired a lawyer to sue the mine and she tried to gain female workers to be her plaintiffs to make a class action. In her efforts, she found a lot of difficulties but she was never giving up. This film also aimed to gain other women to fight and struggle for their rights.
