16 apr 1969 anni - District Court rules that Physical Labor cannot be limited to men

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In 1966 a complaint was filed by named female employees of the Colgate-Palmolive Company.

The complaint in Bowe v Colgate-Palmolive charged the company for unfair practices including separate seniority lists for men and women, unequal pay rates, and for laying off women with more than twenty years seniority and replacing them with men who had no seniority at all in 1965.

Before the ruling was made The National Organization of Women (NOW) sponsored a boycott of Colgate-Palmolive products to protest the company’s unfair treatment of women.

In 1969 an appeals court ruled in favor of Bowe saying that physical labor cannot be limited to men, which had been a key part of Colgate-Palmolive’s defense.

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