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...boss gives preferential treatment to fellow worker, charges job discrimination based on sex and race. The details, however, were unusual. First, the complaining worker was a white male, the boss a white female and the fellow worker a black female. Second, the employer named in the complaint was the EEOC itself...
Allen Sachsel, a commission attorney, claimed that his supervisor, Evangeline Swift, treated a black female lawyer as second-in-command even though he had seniority in the same civil service grade. Swift swiftly fired him. When Sachsel took the case to court, the EEOC accused him of, among other things, causing a morale problem. Last week a spirit of equal opportunity prevailed and both sides dropped charges. Who won? Well, Sachsel is moving on to another job where, coincidentally of course, his boss is a white male. Though the court ruled that he is owed the 40 hours' leave...
...farther when it barred sex discrimination by employers, employment agencies and unions that affect interstate commerce. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is supposed to enforce the law, has no power to bring suits on its own. Legislation currently pending would change that. "The lack severely handicaps the EEOC," contends Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Mink. When it cannot get a voluntary change of an apparently discriminatory policy, EEOC must ask the Justice Department to go into court, and it can be turned down. Since 1964, Justice has filed only three sex-discrimination suits-though the Labor Department has prosecuted...
...when decisions of the Supreme Court could not have done everything we ask today." Thoroughgoing equality under the law would not change every custom and practice, but social change is the more difficult without legal reform. In any case, "the articulation of legal protections for women has begun," says EEOC Legislative Counsel Sonia Pressman Fuentes. "Already women can echo the words of Martin Luther King: 'We ain't what we oughta be, we ain't what we wanta be, we ain't what we gonna be but thank God we ain't what...
...some help from the women's groups. Your opponents are using your sex against you,' " she recalls. Since then, Mrs. Murphy has joined a number of women's business and professional organizations. She has been trying for another general-counsel position, this time with the EEOC, but she has doubts about her prospects. "One top Government official told me he could visualize a woman on the Supreme Court, but he couldn't see a woman general counsel. That's regarded as the hot seat...