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.
"...the fear of retaliation is overwhelming and ever-present [for #pregnant & #parentalleave seeking #gradstudents & #postdocs]." - Jessica Lee, Staff Attorney @WorkLifeLawCtr in
- @ColleenFlahert1 for @insidehighered
AAPI moms: 92 cents
White moms: 72 cents
Black moms: 54 cents
Native moms: 48 cents
Latina moms: 46 cents
Mothers deserve equal pay and so do the families who depend on their salaries. #MomsEqualPay
.@NYTParenting piece by @DianeMehta: Check out the guide to find out how workers can ask for parental leave at a company with no such policy. @WorkLifeLawCtr @NPWF @EqualRightsAdv @ABetterBalance
How to Ask for Maternity or Paternity Leave When Your Company Has No Policy
The weeks and months after having a baby or fostering or adopting a child are a time of enormous change. Parents need that time off to care for their ...
parenting.nytimes.com
Bias in #postdoc hiring: "Black women and Latinx women and men candidates were rated significantly lower than all other candidates..." via @insidehighered
For more about #bias against #WOC in #STEM read @WorkLifeLawCtr's report: https://t.co/RtlLfRiuXk
"Companies are gonna have look very closely at their own [#ParentalLeave] policies to make sure that they are #fair and #equitable, both in how they are written and in how they're implemented." - @galenleigh of @ACLU
Meet the father fighting for paternity leave
https://t.co/wsOXGhlFJJ
“If it ends up that all the primary caregivers are mothers and secondary caregivers are fathers, it’s showing that it has a ‘disparate impact’ on fathers." - Senior Adviser @CTCalvert on #parentalleave policies via @washingtonpost ->
www.washingtonpost.com
