![]() ![]() They talked about how their male co-workers could get away with making passes at them, and worse. They talked about how men made more money than they did for the same job. In Boston, a group of female office workers started talking about how they were treated at work. The ‘Women’s Movement’ was in full swing. Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman, was at the top of the charts. When Dolly Parton sang “9 to 5,” she was singing the true story of a movement that started with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries in the early 1970s. 9 to 5 effectively shed light on the problems of working women, but there’s clearly still more work to be done.The documentary 9to5: The Story of a Movement captures the real-life fight that inspired a hit song and challenged gender inequity in the U.S. “I've always believed that film is a good way to throw light into dark corners, uplift voices that aren't often heard,” Fonda said of 9 to 5 in the documentary. ![]() It was the largest job category in America.”Īnd today, there is greater awareness of women's issues at work compared to forty years ago. Ellen Cassedy, another co-founder of the Boston-based 9to5 organization, explains in the documentary, “One working woman in three was a clerical worker in the 1970s. ![]() Today, women also have more career options than they did forty years ago. Women today are instead fighting to have salary ranges included in job postings. That was one of our big demands, a job posting,” Nussbaum explains in the documentary. We should at least know what the jobs are. “I look back on it now, and we were so modest in our demands. In Still Working 9 to 5, Nussbaum highlights another issue that was facing women in 1980. Her friendship with Fonda inspired Fonda to make the original 9 to 5, and the film was named after Nussbaum’s organization. Activist Karen Nussbaum co-founded and was the first director of 9to5, a Boston-based group aimed at helping working women in the 1970s. ![]()
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