The Center for WorkLife Law is a research and advocacy organization at UC Hastings College of the Law that seeks to advance gender and racial equity in the workplace and in higher education. WorkLife Law focuses on initiatives with the potential to produce concrete social, legal, and institutional change within a three to five year timeframe. Our current major initiatives include programs for advancing women leaders, eliminating barriers for pregnant and breastfeeding workers and students, preventing Family Responsibilities Discrimination, and helping companies to interrupt and correct bias in the workplace and create more stable schedules for their hourly workers.
Our latest report, Exposed: Discrimination Against Breastfeeding Workers, analyzes breastfeeding legal cases from the last decade to document patterns of discrimination, and analyzes new data on the scope of existing state and federal laws to protect against discrimination. We found that 27.6 million women of childbearing age don’t have the basic protections needed by all breastfeeding workers.
With the help of the Society of Women Engineers, the Center for WorkLife Law produced a comprehensive survey documenting in the real world what social psychologists have long observed in labs: that women and people of color experience workplace hurdles that do not exist for white men.
Employers have failed to put in place policies that protect and support caregivers. Based on our review of 4,000 cases, we review efforts to reduce bias against caregivers in the workplace.
Listen to our director's @JoanCWilliams interview with Brooke Thomas from @TheYoungTurks about the Likability Trap #GenderJudo #LikeabilityTrap
Nse Ufot & Joan Williams - September 10, 2019
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"The nature of work is changing, but the need to care for our families is not."
via @AllisonJGuevara on how to access both disability and #paidleave benefits as a #freelancer in California:
Paid Leave for California Freelancers
Wouldn’t it be sweet to enjoy both the flexibility of freelancing and the security of paid leave benefits? Each contributes to the wellbeing of ...
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"Saving Tomorrow Today: An African American Breastfeeding Blueprint": https://t.co/qkiQFUQA2a via @Support_ROSE and @HealthConnctOne #BBW19 #NBM19 #SupportChangesEverything #BPHP2019
Looking for ways to support #blackwomen who breastfeed? Check out these organizations: @Support_ROSE, @BMBFA, @blkwomenshealth, & @NbnaInc
This week on #WellnessWed we’re celebrating #ItsMyWorld! Join us @ 2pm ET. #BBW19
“Black women struggle to breastfeed successfully because they return earlier to work, receive less information about breastfeeding from their health-care providers and have less access to professional support.” via @washingtonpost https://t.co/Zz36uchELb
