![]() Wearing oversized glasses, she gets stuck in a closing elevator when she realizes belatedly that she is about to miss her stop. Because the social order in the capitalist society of the time is structured around men receiving salaries and benefits, this is the first time Judy is fending for herself. ![]() Judy is newly divorced, and new to the workforce. In 9 to 5 Jane Fonda’s character, Judy Bernly, arrives to work at an ominously tall office building. Pouring themselves “a cup of ambition,” three iconic characters from different walks of life marched in their high heels to their office jobs, thinking they might “deserve a fair promotion” only to find out that they were “just a step on the boss man’s ladder.” Their ideas were being used, without credit, and they could find consolation only in the reality that they were “in the same boat with a lot of friends.” When the film 9 to 5 premiered on December 19, 1980, it captured the grievances of working life and emancipatory possibilities of class consciousness in what would become an unlikely classic in the historic labor film archive. Both encapsulated the hopes, desires, disappointments, and challenges working women wrestled with throughout the 1970s. ![]() Forty years ago, the sound of a typewriter-originally conceived of when Dolly Parton walked around clacking her acrylic fingernails against one another-introduced 9 to 5, the iconic song and film of the same name.
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