Papers, 1979-1987

Sears, Roebuck and Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt4j4m (corporateBody)

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, and reincorporated by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first location was in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, the...

United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp0sxv (corporateBody)

Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1946-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b0209q (person)

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...

Clinton, Catherine, 1952-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w984s0 (person)

Cooper, Sandi

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r6nhw (person)

Norton, Mary Beth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s31r1x (person)

Chafe, William Henry

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wn55f7 (person)

Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r501b8 (person)

Foley, Helene P., 1942-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m4080 (person)

Kessler-Harris, Alice

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp767t (person)

Degler, Carl N.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv39v7 (person)