From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 25, 1989:

Suspecting discriminatory hiring practices, a federal agency was reviewing a hiring decision made in Lawrence nearly a decade earlier. It had been May 1980 when three women had taken a physical agility test during screening to become Lawrence firefighters. The three, plus another female applicant, had been notified that they did not pass the test, and by August 1980 the three women had charged that the test was biased against women. City officials, maintaining the allegations were without merit, pointed out that other women had been hired to the department using the same test, which was still in use in 1989. They also pointed out that local and state investigations of the discrimination claim had cleared the city of the charges. However, the complaint was now being investigated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC’s regional offices in Kansas City, Mo., now agreed with the women. The timespan since the original complaint, while out of the norm, was not unheard of within the agency, an EEOC representative said. A commission in Washington, D.C., was now reviewing the complaint.