Pregnancy Discrimination Act

The Politics of Motherhood

Ann O'Leary | Posted 05.16.2012

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Ann O'Leary

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.

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This Mother's Day, Stand Up for Expecting Moms

Dina Bakst | Posted 05.08.2012

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Dina Bakst

No pregnant worker should be forced to choose between her job and a healthy pregnancy.

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Company Ordered To Pay Up In Pregnancy Discrimination Case

Posted 03.06.2012

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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....

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What's Really Holding Women Back In The Workplace

Joan Williams | Posted 05.02.2012

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Joan Williams

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?

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Working Pregnant Women Face Rampant Discrimination

Reuters | Posted 04.16.2012

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By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - More than three decades after Congress passed a law trying to protect pregnant women in ...

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Pregnant And Fired

The Huffington Post | Jessica Samakow | Posted 02.08.2012

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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...

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Professor Says Pregnancy Should Be Treated As Disability

Posted 01.06.2012

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Jeannette Cox, a law professor at the University of Dayton (Ohio), is suggesting that pregnant women experience symptoms that may warrant special acco...

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The Ledbetter Lesson

Jessica Arons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jessica Arons

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.

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Stating the Obvious

Irasema Garza | Posted 05.25.2011

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Irasema Garza

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.

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