'9to5: The Story of A Movement,' PBS Independent Lens, Premier Feb. 1

[appalachiablue]

- PBS. When Dolly Parton sang “9 to 5,” she was doing more than just shining a light on the fate of American working women. Parton was singing the true story of a movement that started with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries in the early 1970s. Their goals were simple—better pay, more advancement opportunities, and an end to sexual harassment—but their unconventional approach attracted the press and shamed their bosses into change.

Featuring interviews with 9to5’s founders, as well as actor and activist Jane Fonda, 9to5: The Story of a Movement is the previously untold story of the fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace.

More, https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/9to5-the-story-of-a-movement/

More, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/31/9to5-pbs-documentary-women-working-conditions

..Women’s participation in the workforce climbed from 33.9% in 1950 to about 51.5% in 1980. As more women began entering the workforce, they faced glaring pay inequities, rampant gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment. The film, featuring interviews with leading organizers of the movement and actor Jane Fonda, who starred in and helped develop the 1980 film 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin, explores the history behind the movement that inspired the Hollywood film, its successes, losses, and parallels to the ongoing struggles in the labor movement and for women’s rights today.

“Women had so few opportunities that working-class women and middle-class women found themselves with the same problems in the same workplaces. We were able to bring people together across class, make sure that we were confronting divisions around race by bringing people together and finding common cause. And it worked,” said Karen Nussbaum, co-founder and director of 9to5...

[elleng]

1. Good song, fun movie, (great cast!) REAL movement!

[appalachiablue]

2. Before this I had no idea 9to5 was a real natl movement, blush

[niyad]

3. 9to5 will always be one of my favourite movies, for many reasons. But, always, for the light it

shined on so many workplace issues, and on the solidarity of women.

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. I didn't know that was a movement either.

I just like the song and movie.

Odd coincidence, I just watched it again Sunday for the first time since at least the early 90's. It's still great!