ed her to return to work to help support her family, and it was during these work years that she encountered the same type of wage discrimination and workplace inflexibility which would shape her later activities ("Ellen Bravo" 40).
Bravo discovered that employers were remarkably inflexible about unscheduled absences which resulted from parental responsibilities. So long as absences were scheduled in advance, they were often excused; unfortunately, illness cannot be scheduled in advance. Since women still carry the bulk of the responsibility of caring for children even when both parents work, and since schools and child care providers typically will not accept ill children, this inflexibility affects women far more than men (Dauer 2).
9to5, National Association of Working Women, was formed by Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassedy in 1973; Bravo formed the Milwaukee chapter of the association in 1982 with a group of women frustrated by the same problems (pay inequity, promotional limitations and sc
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