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

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 lot in common.  “They all had stories to tell of not being paid as much as men in their offices, of having their male supervisors take their ideas and take credit for them,” says Ileen DeVault, a professor of labor history at Cornell University’s…