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 two 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.
I keep getting emails from companies saying they stand in solidarity with #BlackAmericans. The social display of empathy is a good first step, but it’s time for corporations to do more about #racism & #inequity at work. Here's how: for @bopinion
Need help navigating #coronavirus-related paid leave? @WorkLifeLawCtr has guides to help 👇
COVID-19 Resources
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"There's been a lot of invisible labor that women have done that people, particularly men even in the same household, haven't been aware of or haven't paid attention to" @BrigidSchulte
W/ more couples WFH gender inequality in housework has become evident
Pandemic Makes Evident 'Grotesque' Gender Inequality In Household Work
With more people staying home due to COVID-19, journalist Brigid Schulte says it's impossible to ignore "the fact that women bear so much more of the ...
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ATTN #WORKERS: The Families First Coronavirus Response Act has expanded #paidleave for eligible employees.
We have fillable forms to help you ask your employer for leave 👇
COVID-19 Resources
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Hey workers! Need help navigating income replacement or paid leave due to #COVID19?
Our employee helpline is here for you:
http://worklifelaw.org/covid19
The core of our mission at @BlackGirlsCode is to empower Black girls and young women to embrace the current #tech marketplace as builders and creators. We're on a mission to teach 1 million girls to code by the year 2040. #AmplifyBlackSTEM #STEM
