UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 28, Page 5
April 18, 1996
Author, activist in Rodney Room

     Author and activist Ellen Bravo will present "The 9 to 5
Challenge" at noon on Wednesday, May 1, in the Rodney Room of the
Perkins Student Center.
     Bravo, executive director of 9 to 5, National Association of
Working Women, will present the program as an opportunity for
employees and supervisors to begin a dialog on such critical workplace
issues as multiple priorities, networking, collaborating and rights
and respect on the job.
     The program is open to both men and women, and employees are
encouraged to bring their supervisors.
     A business editor at the Milwaukee Journal described Bravo's
talks as "moving, witty and sometimes bawdy." She appears regularly on
national television, including the Today Show, Good Morning America
and CNN's Crossfire.
     After working in offices for years to support herself as an
activist and a writer, Bravo helped found the Milwaukee chapter of 9
to 5 in 1982. The organization was founded in 1973 when a group of
office workers in Boston got together to talk about issues that, at
the time, had no name-sexual harassment, work and family conflicts and
pay equity. Since then, 9 to 5 has emerged as a national organization
that puts working women's issues on the public agenda.
     Now in its third decade, 9 to 5 empowers working women to win
rights and respect on the job. It continues to focus on issues
affecting office workers-the largest job category for women. Current
campaigns include winning family-friendly policies, eliminating
workplace discrimination and helping women make a successful
transition from welfare to work.
     In conjunction with her 9 to 5 work, Bravo is a leading
spokesperson on workplace issues. She authored the book, The
Job/Family Challenge: Not for Women Only, a 9 to 5 Guide and is a co-
author of The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment.
     The presentation is sponsored by the Commission on the Status of
Women, the Office of Women's Affairs, the Office of Employee Training
and Development and the Visiting Women Scholars Fund.
     To register, call 831-4620 or send an e-mail message to
Nancy.Soccorso@mvs.udel.edu. For information, call 831-8063.
                                                        -Scott Collins