Ellen Cassidy, author of "Working 9 to 5" spoke in a special event for our OU-AAUP chapter today. Ellen was an important activist who worked to gain clerical and secretarial respect, rights, and fairer pay in Boston in the early 70s. The largest banks and largest insurance companies in Boston got an education in human decency and more respect for secretaries, clerks, and the 9 to 5 working women.
Jane Fonda met Ellen and her organizing colleagues in the early 70s and began the process of creating a future movie based on the 9-5 movement, which you know so well as a movie and the song
"9 to 5".

These women began the process of changing the workplace for themselves, our Moms, Sisters, Wives, and Daughters. Our democracies are all better for this process.

#EllenCassedy #JaneFonda #9to5 #Working9to5 #DollyParton

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