Papers, 1979-1986

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Papers, 1979-1986

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Photocopies of trial briefs, depositions, trial transcripts from a 1984 sex discrimination case against Sears, Roebuck & Co. in which Sandi E. Cooper, history professor, testified.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1946-

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A professor of history at Barnard College, Rosalind Rosenberg was an expert witness in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit against Sears, Roebuck and Company. The EEOC charged Sears with sex discrimination, claiming that women were underrepresented in high-paying commission sales jobs, and that there were disparate salary rates for men and women in certain managerial and administrative positions. Sears maintained that the government's statistics did not prove discrimination, an...

Cooper, Sandi E.

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Sandi E. Cooper, PhD, is a professor of history at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York (CUNY). In 2000, CUNY issued "The City University of New York Master Plan 2000-2004," the controversial product of several year's work principally concerned with raising academic standards at the University. Many, including Cooper, opposed the plan, seeing it as harmful to the working class and people of color students who comprise the majority of CUNY's student body, and held that ...

Sears, Roebuck and Company-Trials, litigation, etc.

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Kessler-Harris, Alice

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