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.
As the national wave of #teacher strikes and walkouts moves into a second year, there is one important issue of dignity for teachers that has been left out of the conversation: #breastfeeding accommodations.
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Want more diversity in #STEM? Look at what happens to parents.
The latest scheduling dive by @alixgouldwerth: a #fairworkweek could mean better sleep quality for workers, more productivity. Research by Joan Williams @WorkLifeLawCtr, Susan Lambert, Saravanan Kesavan, @dannyjschneider @KristenHarknett.
Retail workers' unpredictable schedules affect sleep quality: Evidence from the Gap - Equitable Growth
New research conducted at The Gap, Inc. stores shows that low-wage retail workers see improvements in their sleep quality when their work schedules ar...
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Women who want to breastfeed need stronger support from their families, communities, health care providers and employers. #March4Nutrition
Follow @PregnantScholar to keep up with #TitleIX --- #KnowYourIX
Federal law and pregnant students--what every professor needs to know. #TitleIX https://t.co/ANUoH5AtQG via @WorkLifeLawCtr
Stable scheduling can be a win-win for both businesses and workers, boosting sales, productivity, and employee health.
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Schedule Stability: A Win for Retail Businesses and Their Workers
Stable scheduling can have a big impact on sales, productivity, and health.
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