Low Pay? Heavy Workload? Limited Advancement?

Minneapolis: Minnesota Working Women, [ca. 1980]. Handbill printed to recto only on pink stock. 8 ½ x 11 in.

“Does this sound like your job? If so, read on.”

Handbill and enrollment coupon for Minnesota Working Women, a group organizing women office workers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 

Minnesota Working Women organized against discrimination against women in the workplace. Through surveys and press appearances, they researched and exposed the pay gap, hard work, and poor treatment of women office workers. Founded by secretary Wendy Robinson, MWW openly discussed the roles of “office wives” and the inappropriate behavior suffered by women office workers. The organization was also instrumental in legislative battles to close the wage gap in Minneapolis in the late 1980’s, as explored in  Elizabeth Meehan & Peggy Kahn’s Equal Values/Comparable Worth in the UK and USA. Minnesota Working Women eventually became the local chapter of “9to5,” the National Association of Working Women.

Horizontal fold line and very small closed tear (less than ⅛ inch) at top. Very good.