The women of Newsweek asked Eleanor Holmes Norton to represent them in their case. Norton gladly accepted and told them to round up everyone who would agree secretly and have them sign the complaint. On March 20, 1970 the women of Newsweek filed their complaint publicly at the American Civil Liberties Union. When they went back to office the next day their editor, Oz Elliott, immediately agreed to negotiations. The following six months were filled with continuous meetings between the Newsweek women, Norton, and management. They chose a historic date to sign their final memorandum: August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. The women of Newsweek and Norton felt as though they needed to quickly speed
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They decided to take lawful action again, but this time hiring Harriet Schaffer Rabb as their lawyer on October of 1971. To make their case more vehement, the Newsweek women decided to file a new complaint of discrimination with the EEOC and simultaneously sue for breach of contract with the New York State Division of Human Rights. They also decided to make a strict goals and timetables list to give to management so that they could see actual gender equality improvement in their workplace. The negotiations lasted until the spring of 1973. “On June 28, 1973, we announced that fifty Newsweek women had signed a second, twenty-two-page memorandum, of understanding with management. We also withdrew complaints with the EEOC and the New York State Division of Human Rights. The new memorandum stated that by December 31, 1974, approximately one-third of the magazine’s writers and domestic reporters would be female and by the end of 1975, one of every three people hired or transferred to the staff of foreign correspondents would be a woman. We gave management more than two years--until December 31, 1975--to appoint a female senior editor in charge of one of the seven editorial sections of the magazine. Newsweek also committed to providing writing and reporting training programs for women, an arbitration procedure, and reports three times a year on the magazines affirmative actions”(The Good Girls Revolt
They decided to take lawful action again, but this time hiring Harriet Schaffer Rabb as their lawyer on October of 1971. To make their case more vehement, the Newsweek women decided to file a new complaint of discrimination with the EEOC and simultaneously sue for breach of contract with the New York State Division of Human Rights. They also decided to make a strict goals and timetables list to give to management so that they could see actual gender equality improvement in their workplace. The negotiations lasted until the spring of 1973. “On June 28, 1973, we announced that fifty Newsweek women had signed a second, twenty-two-page memorandum, of understanding with management. We also withdrew complaints with the EEOC and the New York State Division of Human Rights. The new memorandum stated that by December 31, 1974, approximately one-third of the magazine’s writers and domestic reporters would be female and by the end of 1975, one of every three people hired or transferred to the staff of foreign correspondents would be a woman. We gave management more than two years--until December 31, 1975--to appoint a female senior editor in charge of one of the seven editorial sections of the magazine. Newsweek also committed to providing writing and reporting training programs for women, an arbitration procedure, and reports three times a year on the magazines affirmative actions”(The Good Girls Revolt