 For example, the Oak Room held men-only lunches on weekdays until 1969, when Friedan and other members of NOW staged a protest.As well, women were not allowed in McSorley's Old Ale House's until August 10, 1970, after NOW attorneys Faith Seidenberg and Karen DeCrow filed a discrimination case against the bar in District Court and won.The two entered McSorley's in 1969, and were refused service, which was the basis for their lawsuit for discrimination.