This series of episodes was inspired by the film 9 to 5, a 1980s comedy starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton. What most people don’t know is that the movie was made deliberately to raise awareness around women’s issues in the workplace and in direct relationship to a movement, an organization, and, ultimately, a labor union called 9 to 5.
In Part Three, we do a deep dive into the tactics and tools used by co-founders Ellen Cassedy and Karen Nussbaum as they build the 9 to 5 Movement from a small group of ten women to a national organization, movement, and launch District 925, a union of women by women.
We hope you’ll join us for this entire series of episodes. We found this history to be incredibly inspiring and relevant to this day. The final episode will get into the making of the movie and its impact on the national movement and union.
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SOURCES
9 to 5
Directed by Colin Higgins; Screenplay by Colin Higgins and Patricia Resnick; Story by Patricia Resnick Produced by Bruce Gilbert; Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, Sterling Hayden, Production company IPC Films
Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
By Ellen Cassedy
https://ellencassedy.com/
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project: Nussbaum, Karen
https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/Nussbaum.pdf
Women in the Workforce: 1970s - A Decade of Change
https://www.propelhr.com/blog/women-in-the-workforce-1970s-a-decade-of-change-for-women#:~:text=By%20the%20end%20of%20the,unionized%20jobs%20were%20moving%20overseas.
The 9 to 5 Movement: How Women Got Angry, Got Organized, and Made Labor History
By Ellen Cassedy
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/9-to-5-movement-history
https://www.karennussbaum.com/
WOMEN OF THE YEAR: Great Changes, New Chances, Tough Choices
https://time.com/archive/6595056/women-of-the-year-great-changes-new-chances-tough-choices/
https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/womens-studies/collections/second-wave-feminism#:~:text=The%20second%20wave%20feminism%20movement,spread%20to%20other%20Western%20countries.
https://findingaids.smith.edu/agents/people/2377#:~:text=Fonda%20created%20her%20own%20production,both%20nominated%20for%20Academy%20Awards
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/betty-friedan#:~:text=Her%201963%20best%2Dselling%20book,public%20activism%20for%20gender%20equality
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/seneca-falls-convention
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/seneca-falls-resolutions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Nussbaum
Why 9 to 5 Still Resonates Today
By Karen Nussbaum
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/9-to-5-film-documentary-jane-fonda-dolly-parton
https://midwestacademy.com/about-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochina_Peace_Campaign
https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/675Still Working 9 to 5 (documentary)
