How Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ gave voice to working women

The 1980 film—and song by the same name—is a key piece of Parton’s legacy. It also highlights just how little has truly changed in the decades since. In the mid-1970s, at the height of the feminist movement, a group of women in Boston came together to create a forum for working class women to trade stories about their experiences in the office. As they compared notes, they found that they had a…