“Another word for haste is ‘survival’,” said Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who is pursuing a project passionate about Parton. Women often assume significant care responsibilities, in addition to paid work and “micro-entrepreneurship,” she said. It is necessary to recognize, but, he added, “we must not value this”.
Professor McMillan Cottom noted that she was impressed by the subject of the ad – a black woman whose agitated side is dancing (she is creating a website for herself). That is at least somewhat accurate, she said. Women of color, especially black and Latino women, have always had to work hard – and are bearing the brunt of job losses during Covid-19.
“This ad speaks to a demographic group that I’m not sure is now in the pandemic,” said Marianne Cooper, a Stanford sociologist and author of “Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times.” “It is great to strive to make your dreams come true. Another is if you have to hurry just to survive. “
Parton’s original hymn spoke of solidarity among working women. He had “that tone of ‘take this job and stick it in,’” said Joan C. Williams, a workplace scholar. She said the song, which came out when she was in law school, “showed me that Dolly Parton was a pistol”.
The update – even if Mrs. Parton didn’t write the lyrics this time – can tell more about each woman’s harsh reality for herself.
The 9to5 organization, which is the subject of a new documentary, started in 1973 with a group of 10 young office workers in Boston who earned less than $ 3 an hour and received no pensions. Many trained the men who would become their bosses.
They began distributing pamphlets in the women’s bathrooms of local offices and meeting for coffee, writing a Bill of Rights for office workers, which included things like equal pay, job descriptions and respect. On National Secretaries’ Day, they organized a protest – trying to “retake” the holiday, declaring that they wanted “Raises, not roses”.