9to5 The Story of a Movement (2020)

In the early 1970s a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough They started fighting back creating a movement to force changes in their workplaces This movement became national and is a largely forgotten story of US twentieth century history It encapsulates a unique intersection of the womens movement with the labor movement The awareness these secretaries brought to bear on womens work reverberates even today Clericals were the lowwage workers of their era America now confronts the growing reality of deep income inequality The stories and strategies of these bold creative women resonates in contemporary America