9 TO 5, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN

9 TO 5, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN, a grassroots organization aimed at assisting working women, also functions as a national research and advocacy group. With members in all fifty states and twenty chapters, it is the biggest nonprofit membership association of working women in the country. A group of clerical workers founded the organization in Boston in 1973. Since its early days as a small newsletter, the organization has been an important force in the fight for pay equity, for family and medical leave, for protection for nonstandard work, and against sexual harassment.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. New York: Twayne, 1998.

Zophy, Angela Howard, ed. Handbook of American Women's History. New York: Garland, 1990.

Eli Moses Diner

See also Discrimination: Sex.