i went back and read katherine frankie and mary in case'-- mary andne case's articles. it's so outraged women's organizations a found it -- they founded a reaction. if you go to the website and go under history, they will explain. the eoc emerged as a leader of shaping sex discrimination. the -- how could the eoc do that? through commissioned decisions it did not have real strong enforcement of authority but it did have the requirement of taking charges and investigating and seeing if they thought there was reasonable cause. in the early years of the eoc, those decisions were all issued by the commission. they all came up to the commission, the back of the investigation and the commission issued decisions explaining why there was cause are not caused to believe discrimination occurred. all of these were confidential and the statutes could not be disclosed in the name of the charging party or respondent. it was actually used by courts in figure out what title vii should mean. we use commission decisions and issued guidance to explain our review of the law and heard congr