We open to shades of gray and beige and what must be the world’s dullest office. She opens her laptop, where we see our first glimpse of real color, in the website for a dance-fitness business she’s starting. But all this was set to Dolly Parton singing a reimagined version of her famous “9 to 5,” originally written for the hit 1980 comedy of the same name. The movie, in turn, was inspired by real women: a group of Boston secretaries who banded together in 1973 to fight against degrading and unfair working conditions. They are the ones who named their cause after the eight daily hours of their lives they wanted to make better.

Source: New York Times February 18, 2021 09:56 UTC