{"id":106463,"date":"2021-02-07T19:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=106463"},"modified":"2021-02-07T19:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:30:22","slug":"the-working-womans-anthem-9-to-5-needed-an-update-but-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/the-working-womans-anthem-9-to-5-needed-an-update-but-this\/","title":{"rendered":"The Working Woman\u2019s Anthem \u20189 to 5\u2019 Needed an Update. But This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1978, when Jane Fonda decided she wanted to make a film about working women, she traveled to Cleveland to meet with members of an organization that would come to be known as 9to5. The women were clerical workers who were fed up with low wages and chauvinist managers, and Ms. Fonda asked them: \u201cHave you ever fantasized about killing your boss?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought, \u2018Oh, come on, what is this Hollywood sensationalism stuff?\u2019\u201d said Ellen Cassedy, a co-founder of the group and 28 at the time. \u201cBut then one woman sort of timidly raised her hand, and these stories came pouring out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The stories would become the basis for the 1980 film \u201c9 to 5,\u201d which starred Ms. Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton as office workers who enact revenge on their sexist boss. Ms. Parton wrote the movie\u2019s theme song, which described the grind of \u201cworkin\u2019 9 to 5\u201d that had only recently become a reality for a significant number women. Many of them were \u201cbarely gettin\u2019 by,\u201d as Ms. Parton sang, on minimum wages with bosses that groped, demeaned and stole their ideas along the way.<\/p>\n

Now Ms. Parton\u2019s \u201c9 to 5\u201d will reach a new audience <\/strong>\u2014 those who tune into the Super Bowl on Sunday. The song has been reimagined as an advertisement for Squarespace, the website builder. But with a gig economy twist.<\/p>\n

The song begins like the original, with a \u201ctumble outta bed\u201d and \u201ca cup of ambition,\u201d the clacking of Ms. Parton\u2019s acrylic nails the inspiration for the clacking sound of a typewriter in the background.<\/p>\n

But this version has been recast as \u201c5 to 9\u201d \u2014 open to interpretation, it seems, whether that means 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. or a four-hour chunk of time before or after a typical workday, when people with \u201cpassion and a vision\u201d are focused on their \u201cdreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cCuz it\u2019s hustlin\u2019 time,\u201d Ms. Parton sings. \u201cA whole new way to make a livin.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t exactly the working-class anthem that Senator Elizabeth Warren chose as her presidential campaign song.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Americans are hustling more than ever in the pandemic, but not in the same way. In a global recession that disproportionately affects women \u2014 and has working mothers coming apart at the seams \u2014 many people are simply trying to stay afloat.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother word for hustle is \u2018survival,\u2019\u201d said Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been pursuing a passion project about Ms. Parton. Women often take on significant caregiving responsibilities on top of paid work and \u201cmicro-entrepreneurship,\u201d she said. It\u2019s necessary to acknowledge, but, she added, \u201cwe should not valorize it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor McMillan Cottom noted that she was struck by the lead character of the ad \u2014 a Puerto Rican woman, the actor Tanairi Vazquez, whose side hustle is dance (she\u2019s making herself a website). That\u2019s at least somewhat accurate, she said. Women of color, especially Black women and Latina women, have always had to hustle \u2014 and are bearing the brunt of job losses during Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat ad speaks to a demographic that I\u2019m not actually sure exists right now in the pandemic,\u201d said Marianne Cooper, a sociologist at Stanford and the author of \u201cCut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s great to hustle to achieve your dreams. It\u2019s another if you have to hustle just to get by.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Parton\u2019s original anthem spoke to solidarity among working women. It had \u201cthis kind of \u2018Take this job and shove it\u2019 tone,\u201d said Joan C. Williams, a workplace scholar. She said the song, which came out when she was in law school, \u201cshowed me that Dolly Parton was a pistol.\u201d<\/p>\n

The update \u2014 even if Ms. Parton didn\u2019t write the lyrics this time around \u2014 might speak more to the grim reality of every woman for herself.<\/p>\n

The organization 9to5, which is the subject of a new documentary, began in 1973 with a group of 10 young clerical workers in Boston who made less than $3 an hour and did not receive pensions. Many had trained the men who would become their bosses.<\/p>\n

They began passing out pamphlets in ladies\u2019 rooms of local offices and meeting over coffee, drafting an office workers\u2019 Bill of Rights, which included things like equal pay, job descriptions and respect. On National Secretaries\u2019 Day, they organized a protest \u2014 attempting to \u201crepossess\u201d the holiday by declaring they wanted \u201cRaises, not roses.\u201d<\/p>\n

They staged \u201cWorst Boss\u201d contests to publicize their bosses\u2019 most outrageous behavior: firing a secretary for delivering a corned beef sandwich on white bread, not rye; asking another to sew up a hole in the groin of her boss\u2019s pants \u2014 while he was wearing them.<\/p>\n

The organization accomplished much more than stunt theater, too, filing class-action suits for back pay, forming a woman-led union and setting up a sexual harassment hotline in an era when many people didn\u2019t even know that the harassment was illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our great achievements was to bring together a very diverse group of women who were working office jobs, who all looked around at each other and thought, as Dolly Parton said, \u2018We\u2019re all in the same boat,\u2019\u201d Ms. Cassedy said.<\/p>\n

Many of those original demands remain as relevant as ever. It\u2019s the \u201c9 to 5\u201d part that feels retro. Since the 1970s, full-time jobs with benefits have slowly but surely been replaced by the types of short-term, gig economy jobs that sociologists call \u201cprecarious work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m almost nostalgic for the 9 to 5 job,\u201d Dr. Cooper said. \u201cA full-time job with a salary and benefits has become a luxury.\u201d<\/p>\n

And for those who have it, the demands are rarely limited to eight hours and a lunch break. There may have once been a wage penalty for overwork \u2014 commonly defined as workweeks of 50-plus hours \u2014 but these days we place a premium on overwork, said Ms. Williams, who runs the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California\u2019s Hastings College of the Law.<\/p>\n

But even as Ms. Parton fought for fair working hours for others, she has always been about working herself to the bone.<\/p>\n

In 1976, she became the first woman in country music to have her own TV program, \u201cDolly.\u201d \u201c9 to 5\u201d was her first acting role, and she agreed to take the job only if she could write the theme song \u2014 to which she kept the rights.<\/p>\n

In a recent T Magazine profile, Ms. Parton noted that she typically rises at 3 a.m. to work on her spiritual practice, along with any one of the projects she keeps lined up in plastic bins before her workday officially begins.<\/p>\n

Ms. Parton may be just having a bit of fun with her 5-to-9 Squarespace side hustle. And maybe she will use her fee to fund more vaccine research.<\/p>\n

But, as Shima Oliaee, a co-creator of the podcast \u201cDolly Parton\u2019s America,\u201d put it, Ms. Parton has always been a prism for how we see the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople interpret her based on their own hopes and struggles and passions,\u201d Ms. Oliaee said. \u201cSo at first I thought, \u2018This is great, it\u2019s all about achieving your dreams.\u2019 And then when the lyrics of the song had a microscope put to them, I thought: \u2018Wait, maybe this is not great. Maybe this is way too hard in a pandemic to live up to.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What would be great?<\/p>\n

As American women deal with ongoing job losses, economic challenges and just plain fatigue, they could use a more accurate anthem.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just that \u201cworking on my own terms, with flexibility, in a way that adds up to 40 hours a week but not more than that\u201d isn\u2019t quite as catchy as the original.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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