Remember 1970s Merrill for View Into Kleiner Case: Opening Line

Sometimes, progress is measured not by a shining moment of triumph, but by a gradual reduction in awfulness.

As we settle in to follow the gender-discrimination trial involving venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, it’s worth considering one of the early sex-discrimination cases that shook the Silicon Valley of the 1970s, a place known as Wall Street.