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.
A special thank you to the @ritzcarlton for hosting and supporting strong women leaders on day 2 of the Women’s Leadership Academy!
“Many teachers are left with no choice but to quit breastfeeding. Others … quit their jobs,” write @WorkLifeLawCtr’s @BusquedaJess & Liz Morris: https://t.co/JGbMIFb4nw #ewopinion @UCHastingsLaw
On Monday, I spoke in Seoul for #GenderEquality Week. #ParentalLeave, "daddy quotas," and redefining the ideal worker are key steps towards gender parity. Many thanks to the Seoul Metropolitan Government & @TheKoreaHerald:
[Herald Interview] ‘Men taking parental leave first step to reducing gender inequality’
Men should be allowed and expected to take parental leave and attend to their children’s needs as the first step to achieving gender equality at...
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Attention #InHouseCounsel --- Don't miss out on our upcoming Leadership Academy for Women on July 19th! Join us for a day of learning and networking with savvy #womeninlaw. Spots are filling up: https://t.co/Ol0Bg7oIb1
The American Institute of Architects (@AIANational ) partners with the @WorkLifeLawCtr at University of California Hastings College of the Law to study workplace culture in the architecture profession.
AIA Partners with University of California Hastings to Study Diversity in Architecture
AIA expands research to identify strategies that will strengthen firm culture.
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"Despite a patchwork of laws giving legal rights to #breastfeeding employees, millions still do not have the basic legal protections they need. Workers are losing their jobs to feed their babies," - Liz Morris, Deputy Director in @MotherlyMedia:
Why standing up for breastfeeding in the workplace forces so many moms out of it
We need to do more to protect these women.
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