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...1960s, 70s and 80s that serious social and legal pushes forced the American workplace to progress in terms of gender politics. In 1963, the Equal Pay Act was passed, requiring equal wages for equal work. And it wasn’t even until1980, that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finally affirmed sexual harassment as an unlawful employment practice...
...January 2002, Goodwin made her first attempt to file a complaint with the EEOC but was allegedly told by an investigator there to first seek help inside Harvard’s human resources and affirmative action offices. According to the court documents, Goodwin’s case was so “outrageous” that the affirmative action office consulted Harvard’s General Counsel’s office, who allegedly sent Goodwin’s superiors to diversity training...
...April 2002, the EEOC again declined to take up Goodwin’s case and this time allegedly told her to pursue a pending job at Hilles Library. According to Goodwin, she was not offered an interview at Hilles...
...EEOC eventually took up her case in October 2002, but her complaint was dismissed this June, “partly on the grounds that she did not file her complaint until October 2002.” Clarey said that the EEOC offered her poor advice and delayed filing the report. According to the court documents, Goodwin was not contacted in any way about the case...
According to Clarey, at the time of the EEOC decision, Goodwin was also unaware of an “inch-high” stack of paper that documented a communication between Harvard’s General Counsel’s Office and the EEOC. The court complaint states that the EEOC decision was based in part on these “ex parte” communications...