The Politics of Motherhood
Working mothers, or at least those with limited education and lower-end jobs, have almost no employee benefits that allow time away from work when their children are sick or even when they give birth.
Working mothers, or at least those with limited education and lower-end jobs, have almost no employee benefits that allow time away from work when their children are sick or even when they give birth.
Dina Bakst | Posted 05.08.2012
No pregnant worker should be forced to choose between her job and a healthy pregnancy.
Posted 03.06.2012
A Milwaukee medical staffing company will have to pay a former employee nearly $150,000 after firing the new mom for taking maternity leave. The U....
Joan Williams | Posted 05.02.2012
Is discrimination against mothers -- not against women in general -- almost single-handedly responsible for the gender gap in the academy in science and math-related fields?
Reuters | Posted 04.16.2012
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - More than three decades after Congress passed a law trying to protect pregnant women in ...
The Huffington Post | Jessica Samakow | Posted 02.08.2012
Amy Zvovushe, 31, had a new job (as a senior program manager at a marketing company in Connecticut) and a new baby on the way. But instead of colleagu...
Posted 01.06.2012
Jeannette Cox, a law professor at the University of Dayton (Ohio), is suggesting that pregnant women experience symptoms that may warrant special acco...
Jessica Arons | Posted 05.25.2011
Many hoped the Court would abandon its quest to place its own ideology ahead of settled law. Yet it is clear that these justices still have not learned their lesson.
Irasema Garza | Posted 05.25.2011
Sonia Sotomayor has more judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee of the past 100 years. She is an outstanding nominee. Yet her detractors attack her for having stated the obvious.
Ann O'Leary | Posted 05.16.2012