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Her argument — that the “do your own thing” mantra of the women’s movement should extend to homemakers, a group she saw as at risk of becoming “extinct” — seems fair enough, though at times it’s plain that Hekker believes being a stay-at-home mother is not only her thing, but the right thing.

Hurtado primarily worked on the exhibition’s featured pieces while living in Santa Monica in the 1970s, embroiled in the beginnings of the L.A. women’s movement that shaped her artistic identity.

You keep thinking the business is moving forward, but look at what's happening right now with the women's movement.

As the 20th century women’s movement began, she was already the head of a media company, and though she never identified as a feminist, she supported equal rights for women, which often put her at odds not only with the men around her but with her own position.

It was a comedy about working women, in the decade of the women’s movement — Norman Lear’s “One Day at a Time,” about a single mother and her daughters getting by, premiered the year before.