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- BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesLABORThe Boys' Club Pays Its Dues
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- When Martha Page went to work as a trainee for Chicago's
- Harris Trust, she soon learned that "all the women were
- required to type and the men were not." Recalls another former
- Harris employee, Fran Hurwitz, who worked 15 years as a clerk:
- "Harris was your basic boys' club." Both women left the bank
- during the mid-1970s, but last week they got a measure of
- satisfaction when Harris settled a twelve-year-old Government
- suit charging the bank with race and sex discrimination.
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- Without admitting guilt, Harris said it would pay $14
- million in back wages to thousands of workers. Nancy Kreiter,
- research director for a women's advocacy group that helped push
- the lawsuit, called the settlement "a fabulously sweet
- victory." But even before last week's decision, the bank had
- come a long way. In 1977 Harris had five women vice presidents.
- Today it has 102 (out of 380).
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