Event
9 to 5: The Story of a Movement
Friday, March 21, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Petty Auditorium
This documentary film highlights the creation of the 9 to 5 movement, which was established to fight for workplace equity and address wage discrepancies between men and women.
The movement served as the basis for the feature film 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin.
In the early 1970s, secretaries in Boston decided to fight against humiliating, harassing, and illegal work environments. Their movement became national and is a largely forgotten story of U.S. 20th-century history. Director Julia Reichert was an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning documentarian.