'A lost history': the US women who fought for better working conditions

PBS documentary on 9to5 shows how women's organizing efforts in 1970s to better working conditions echos many of today's social justice movements

In the early 1970s, a group of female clerical workers in Boston, Massachusetts, began organizing for better wages, advancement opportunities, and an end to sexual harassment. Their organizing efforts spurred a nationwide movement called 9to5, formed to improve working conditions for women across the board, and eventually toward the goal of forming unions within the workplace.

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