Historical Timeline
1960s
1964
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination.
Legislation
1970s
March 1970
Women at Newsweek hold a press conference announcing a US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint.
Lawsuit Filed
May 1970
Women at four Time Inc. magazines—Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated—charge the company with sex discrimination.
Lawsuit Filed
August 1970
The year is the fiftieth anniversary of passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women suffrage.
Milestone
1971
Columbia Law School establishes the Employment Rights Project.
Movement
1971
The Time Inc. lawsuit settles out of court.
Settlement
March 1972
A group of Black Washington Post reporters, dubbed the Metro 7, file a race discrimination complaint with the EEOC.
Lawsuit Filed
June 1972
The Reader's Digest women's coalition files a formal EEOC complaint.
Lawsuit Filed
1972
The Washington Post's first sex discrimination lawsuit begins.
Lawsuit Filed
1973
Women at The New York Times file an EEOC complaint.
Lawsuit Filed
1973
The Newsweek lawsuit settles out of court.
Settlement
1973
The lawyer Janice Goodman opens the first all-woman law firm in Manhattan.
Movement
October 1973
Women at the Associated Press (AP) file an EEOC complaint charging the wire service with discriminating against women and minorities.
Lawsuit Filed
October 1974
Women working for the Register Publishing Company in New Haven, Connecticut, file an EEOC complaint.
Lawsuit Filed
1974
Black reporters sue The New York Times for race discrimination. The suit settles in 1979.
Lawsuit Filed
1975
The term sexual harassment is coined.
Movement
December 1976
Women at The Detroit News hold a news conference announcing a lawsuit.
Lawsuit Filed
November 1977
The Reader's Digest lawsuit settles out of court for $1.5 million.
Settlement
October 1978
A New York Times settlement is reached.
Settlement
1980s
November 1980
A Washington Post settlement is reached.
Settlement
1981
A second suit begins at The Washington Post. The broad pay discrimination lawsuit includes women and people of color.
Lawsuit Filed
June 1982
The Register Publishing Company case goes to trial.
Lawsuit Filed
June 1983
The AP lawsuit ends with an out-of-court $1.5 million settlement.
Settlement
November 1983
The Detroit News lawsuit settles out of court with a $300,000 settlement.
Settlement
2000s
Spring 2003
The second Washington Post lawsuit settles.
Settlement
2020s
Spring 2021
The Washington Post announces Sally Buzbee as its first female executive editor.
Milestone
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