And third of all, I know that everyone in my company wants to kill me.” Secondly, it’s about women wanting to kill their boss. “I think back,” she says, “and Jane and Dolly and Lily encouraged me.”Īnd in a moment of bizarre self-awareness, Harvey Weinstein, an investor and producer of the 9 to 5 musical, explains why the production is a success: “It’s women’s emancipation. She even feared for her life at times on the dangerous factory floor. When she became a supervisor, some men resented taking orders from a woman and made her job difficult. Lilly Ledbetter, who sued Goodyear Tire for sex discrimination in 1998 and for whom the 2009 Fair Pay Act is named, saw 9 to 5 when it came out. The studio was nervous because the film had three female leads and wanted a movie star as the boss Bruce Gilbert, the producer and Fonda’s business partner, prevailed in casting Dabney Coleman in that role. The documentary has delightful information about the film I didn’t know, along with insights on the fight for women’s equality.Ī few highlights: It turns out that Lily Tomlin backed out twice because she didn’t think the script was funny she eventually decided the opportunity to work with Fonda was too important to pass up.
I was friends with Jane Fonda from the antiwar movement, and my stories about organizing women office workers in our national association 9to5 and our union SEIU 925, inspired her to make the film, as she describes in the documentary made by Camille Hardman and Gary Lane. As Dolly says in the new documentary, Still Working 9 to 5, “It’s forty years later, and it’s still important.” But the sensible reforms mentioned in the film - equal pay, childcare, flexible hours - are still out of reach. Women are no longer restricted to a handful of occupations, and sexual harassment is no longer a personal shame but a public scandal. 9 to 5 the movie catapulted those women’s demands for rights and respect into the public debate, legitimizing the often-unspoken grievances of the growing women’s workforce. When Dolly Parton first tapped out the beat to her iconic song 9 to 5 more than forty years ago, a movement of working women was taking off.
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