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Call No.: 80-M169
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: New York Times Women's Caucus
Title: Papers, 1969-1980
Quantity: 2 cartons, 1 file box, 2 oversize items
Abstract: Legal documents, memos, depositions, etc., of New York Times Women's Caucus, created in 1972 to fight discrimination against women at the newspaper.

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HISTORY

In 1972, 80 women employees of The New York Times petitioned publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger concerning the status of women at the newspaper. A year later they filed charges of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New York City Commission on Human Rights. As there were no results, six New York Times women--Elizabeth Wade Boylan, Louise Carini, Joan Cook, Nancy Davis, Grace Glueck, and Andrea Skinner--sued the paper in 1974 under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Five hundred and sixty other Times women joined in the suit when, in February 1977, a Federal judge ruled in favor of class action. The women were represented by the Federally funded Employment Rights Project at Columbia University, with Model Cities funds going to Columbia via the City government. Attorneys on the Project were Harriet Rabb, George Cooper, and Howard Rubin. Although it denied charges of systematic discrimination, the New York Times agreed in November 1978 to an out-of-court settlement that amended goals for promoting women to influential editorial and managerial positions, created an annuities fund of $232,000 to compensate New York Times women for the cost of past discrimination, and awarded the plaintiffs $100,000 to cover legal fees.

CONTAINER LIST

• Carton 1: 1-19
• Carton 2: 20-31v
• Box 3: 32a-32h
• Oversize folder: see Inventory

INVENTORY

• 1. Class action complaint (1975)

• 2. NY Times Women's Suit, I (memos, depositions, letters, 1957-1978)

• 3. NY Times Women's suit, II (1975-1978)

• 4. Women's Newsletter (1975)

• 5. Meetings, etc. (1973-1977)

• 6. Office rentals, etc. (1973)

• 7. Treasurer accounts (1974-1975)

• 8. Transcript 7/20/1972, A.O.S

• 9. Responses (1973-1975)

• 10. Joan Cook (1974-1979)

• 11. Correspondence (1973)

• 12. Digest of laws (1970-1972)

• 13. Lists, etc. (1973-1977)

• 14. Other organizations (1972-1975)

• 15. Times proposal (AAP, c. 1973)

• 16. Clippings (1973-1975)

• 17. Women's Group NYT (1972-1974)

• 18. "From Gluekk's House" (1972-1975)

• 19. Women's Caucus Meeting (1976-1977)

• 20. Legal documents: Boylan v. NY Times, I

• 21. Legal documents: Boylan v. NY Times, II

• 22. Ann Pett (Sexual harassment at NY Times), 1974-1976

• 23. Trip to Radcliffe (1974-1980)

• 24. Charges of discrimination (1973)

• 25. Times Women (accordion folder: memos, clippings, correspondence, sex-bias suit, 1974-1980)

• 26. Guild and U.S. Documents: Employment, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment, I

• 27. Guild and U.S. Documents: Employment, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment, II

• 28. Badges, buttons, ribbons (manila envelope)

• 29. Shoulder bag: 74 Civ. 4891 Judge Werker Nov. 7, 1974/1974 Civ. 4457 Judge Metzner Oct. 10, 1974. (white).

• 30. Shoulder bag (same as above)

• 31v. Securities and Exchange Commission, Annual Report of The New York Times Company.

• 32a-32h. Collection of documents assembled by Caucus, originally in large notebook

• Oversize folder: 2 sketches from hearings, by Marilyn Church

Additional catalog entries

SEPARATION RECORD

The following items have been removed from the collection and deposited in the Schlesinger Library book and periodical collections, August 1980:

• Myra E. Barrer, ed. Journal of Legal Documents Affecting Women, vol 1-1 (document nos. 1-22) and vol. 1-2 (document nos. 23-48), Washington, D.C., Today Publications, July and October 1976.
• Susan R. Agid, Fair Employment Litigation Manual: Procedural Guide and Sample Documents, New York, Employment Rights Project, Columbia University, 1974.
• Columbia Magazines Summer 1980 ("The Women of Columbia").