[6] Just before walking down the aisle, Feigen spotted a "NO LADIES ALLOWED" sign on the Harvard Club of New York library wall.
They appealed to the Harvard Club of New York to allow women among its members, but the board voted to reject the proposal.
After five years of legal work, in the last conference before the trial was set to begin, a federal judge ordered the club to take one final vote.
[8] Publicly, the Club's outgoing president, Albert H. Gordon, maintained that the vote was unconnected with the discrimination suit filed earlier in the year.
After the congressional hearings concluded, Feigen returned to New York and was hired as a litigation associate at the law firm Rosenman, Colin, Jaye, Petschek, Freund, and Emil.
The speech was titled "Living the Revolution", and in it Steinem advocated for a rejection of women's second-class status in society.
[17] In 1972, Feigen left private practice, and she, Steinem, and Catherine Samuels founded The Women's Action Alliance.
In 1972, Feigen joined Ruth Bader Ginsburg in co-directing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)'s newly formed Women's Rights Project (WRP).
Feigen's legal expertise and experience as the legislative vice president of NOW made her a prime candidate for the job, but she remained unsure as to whether or not she wanted to leave her position at Ms. Magazine.
During her time at WRP, Brenda contributed to the establishment of heightened scrutiny for sex classifications under the Equal Protection Act.
The Partnership was a law firm called Fasteau and Feigen, located on Madison Avenue in New York City.
[29] Some of her clients included producers, writers and talent, such as Jane Alexander, Karen Allen, Loretta Swit, and Mike Farrell.
Once Pfarrer retired, he expanded on his part-time interest in screenwriting and wrote a full screenplay for the film, Navy SEALS, which Feigen would produce.
Lewis Teague was hired as Marquand's replacement, and by September 1989 filming commenced in Spain and Norfolk, Virginia.