Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy

<p>“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal. We held these bad boss contests. Where, the first winner was a boss who had asked his secretary to sew up a hole in his pants while he was wearing them. So it was really dire out there. And when we started speaking up, everyone was so shocked. It was like the wallpaper had come alive.”</p> <p>Ellen Cassedy, 9 to 5</p> <p>About the 9 to 5 Movement</p> <p>Starting out in Boston in 1973, the women of 9 to 5 built a nationwide feminist movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages. They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted, filed lawsuits, and started a woman-led union. They won millions of dollars in back pay and helped make sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination illegal.</p> “The entire time that we were working on the movie I could carry in my heart that this was married to a movement.” <p>— JANE FONDA</p> <p>When women rose up to win rights and respect at the office, they transformed workplaces throughout America. Along the way came Dolly Parton’s toe-tapping song and the movie inspired by their work. Working 9 to 5 is a lively, informative, firsthand account packed with practical organizing lore that will embolden anyone striving for fair treatment.</p> <p>Buy the book 9 to 5 at https://ellencassedy.com/#9to5</p> About Ellen <p>Ellen Cassedy was a founder and longtime leader of 9 to 5, the national association of women office workers. <a href='https://ellencassedy.com/#9to5'>Working 9 to 5</a> is her first-person account of this exciting movement, which began in the early 1970’s, mobilizing women across the country to organize for rights and respect on the job. The movement inspired Jane Fonda’s hit movie and Dolly Parton’s enduring anthem. 9 to 5 is still active today.</p> <p>Ellen appears in the documentaries “<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ_04nMVN5U'>9 to 5: The Story of a Movement</a>” and “<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_0bwPifNk'>Still Working 9 to 5</a>.”</p> <p>Ellen i