Talk:9to5

Wiki Education assignment: HIST 121 - U.S. History since 1877

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Added Headings, provided more information about the 9to5 members, provided citation that was missing, and re-organized layout to make the article flow better. Junipurr2022 (talk) 18:21, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Sociology of Metoo

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Wiki Education assignment: HIST 121 - U.S. History since 1877

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 February 2024 and 10 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kac1418, Bbgmj (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Bjbo1734, Sillygoose128.

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History

I added a section to discuss what led the women and leaders of the movement to want to create a change Bbgmj (talk) 14:56, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Hearing on Working Conditions of Women Office Workers

Added a section to discuss the bill they wrote and created for the benefit of them working in the office to create a more fair and better working environment Bbgmj (talk) 14:57, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Hearing on Working Conditions of Women Office Workers

Found and added a source to "One of the organization's earliest victories included a class-action suit filed against several Boston publishing companies that awarded the female plaintiffs $1.5 million in back pay. In 1975, the founders of 9to5 joined with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and formed Local 925 of the SEIU in Boston in order to help office workers gain access to collective bargaining rights." Bbgmj (talk) 14:57, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Continued Efforts

Found and added source to "Among other issues, 9to5 actively promotes workplace policies such as paid sick leave, equal pay, and an end to discrimination for hiring or firing based on gender or sexual orientation. 9to5 additionally staffs a Job Survival Helpline to give support to women facing difficulties or challenges in the workplace. The gender wage gap was never completely closed by the end of the century but the tolerance of working in the office for women became bearable. Their jobs were no longer demeaning and women experienced far less sexism." Bbgmj (talk) 14:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Development and Influence

Added more information to the idea that creating a labor organization group was not the original goal of the movement. Bbgmj (talk) 14:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

History

The newsletter was 9to5: Newsletter for Boston Area Office Workers - meant for all workers not just women. Edited so the newsletter had the correct name as it was wrong before. Bbgmj (talk) 14:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Continued Efforts

Talk about movement did not completely create equality but made working conditions as a female more tolerable Bbgmj (talk) 14:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

National Secretaries Day

Added a section to discuss national secretaries day and what it meant for the 9to5 movement. It was instrumental in gathering women together to discuss the inequalities between women and their bosses Kac1418 (talk) 13:27, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Tactics

Added a section about the tactics used during the 9to5 movement. Discussed lawsuits, petitions, "worst-boss contests". Highlighting the unprofessional behavior of bosses Kac1418 (talk) 13:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Tactics

Under the tactics section the term "office-maid" and "office-wife" were defined in order to highlight the derogatory names women in the office were called. Kac1418 (talk) 13:31, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Local 925

Added a section on Local 925 and how it helped women establish insurance and banking as well as an end to discriminatory pay. Kac1418 (talk) 13:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

History

Under the History section, a discussion about the Equal Pay Act and the EEOC and how it helped 9to5 was added. A source was added to support the section. Discusses how past laws were not necessarily helping women in the workplace. Kac1418 (talk) 13:36, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Sexual Harrassment

Sentence, "Sexual harassment was first coined by a radical feminist activist Lin Farley, when she encountered and learned about the Carmita Woods case." was adjusted to be more gramatically acceptable. Kac1418 (talk) 13:39, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Continued Efforts

Sentence, "The organization effectively used the media and lobbied legislators as part of a campaign to warn the public of the health dangers of video display terminals (also known as VDTs) and has also used the media to draw attention to several sexual harassment cases in the 1990s." was split into two sentences to eliminate it from being a run-on Kac1418 (talk) 13:45, 3 May 2024 (UTC)