Emotional series based on real events on Netflix about the different struggles of women

The Netflix catalog has a lot of them series based on real events that are very emotional and raw for the kind of subject they touch, where women of different ages face different struggles in their lives to find a way to survive the situations they face every day.

A self-made woman

Between miniseries based on real events found on Netflix There’s ‘MC Walker: A Self Made Woman’, starring Octavia Spencer as the famous businesswoman of the same name who went from cleaning floors for wealthy families to running her own company of products for hair.

MC Walker worked from an early age in the homes of wealthy families as part of the handyman team, a job that was almost automatic for the women of color of her day. However, one day she decided to change her fate and with a lot of effort she created her own company of afro hair products: her response was so great that she became the first billionaire black woman. .

unorthodox

Another of the series with stories about women’s struggle is ‘Unorthodox’, which is based on the book of the same name by Deborah Feldman, who grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in the United States and far from wanting to continue with that kind of life, abandoned it to seek her freedom as a woman.

In ‘Little Orthodox’ we relive the story of this young Jewish woman who, before finally “accepting” a wedding arranged by her family for her and a rabbi of the community, escaped and set out on her way to New York: she has tried to study, have fun like any young person of her age and create her own destiny away from the beliefs that have always been imposed on her.

Things to clean

In the case of “The Things to Clean”, it is also the television adaptation of a book: Stephanie Land’s autobiographical novel, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. In it, she recounts her life as a single teenage mother who, without the support of her family and partner, sought a way to support her daughter with many sacrifices.

The story of ‘Things to Clean’ is a portrait of that youth book by Deborah Feldman, to tell what her journey was like as a victim of gender and domestic violence, the lack of support she received from people close to her and the constant struggle he took to be able to give his daughter a life.