Ellen Cassedy

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Ellen Cassedy is known for co-founding 9to5, an organization coordinating improved working conditions for office workers.

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Biography Cassedy was working as an office worker at Harvard University when she met Karen Nussbaum. After going to a weekend workshop for office workers, the two realized that many office workers faced challenges in the workplace. They formed the 9to5 organization in the Boston area with a group of eight other women, all located in Boston.

Cassedy wrote series of newspaper articles with Nussbaum that shared ideas from their book, 9 to 5: The Working Woman's Guide to Office Survival. They advocated for better working conditions for working secretaries. Cassedy was the editor of the 9 to 5 newsletter. She spoke against changes to affirmative action programs in 1975, and during the Reagan administration she worked on affirmative action programs.

Cassedy also wrote the one-woman play Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn that was inspired by diaries written by her great-aunt. The play was made into a film with Joanna Merlin playing the lead character, and won awards at multiple film festivals.

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Selected publications

• Ellen Cassedy (1983). 9780140067514, Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140067514
  Reviews of 9 to 5: Working Women
• Review of Working 9 to 5

• Ellen Bravo (1992). 9780471575764, Wiley. ISBN 9780471575764
  Reviews of The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment
• Ellen Cassedy (2012). 9780803230125, University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803230125
  Reviews of We Are Here

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