For more than 70 years the hiring practice at the Lawry’s restaurant chain was men need not apply for food server positions because only women were sought. That discriminatory policy is now coming to an end after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against Lawry’s for refusing to hire male waiters. The chain, which does business as Lawry’s the Prime Rib, Five Crowns, and Tam O’Shanter Inn (Lawry’s) and is located in Las Vegas, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Corona del Mar, California, has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle the class action lawsuit and revise an employment policy that first went into effect in 1938. Sex-based discrimination was outlawed under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and yet Lawry’s continued to get away with refusing to hire men as servers for another 45 years.