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

The 1980 film—and song of the same name—is a key piece of her legacy. It also highlights just how little has truly changed in the decades since.

Country singer Dolly Parton acts in a scene from the movie 9 to 5, which was released on December 19, 1980. [Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images]

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........

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