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.
“You can make a one-time correction, which is admirable, but unless you go back and address the kinds of #biases that influence the kinds of assignments people are given and the kind of performance evaluations they get, the same biases will re-emerge over time.” ~ @JoanCWilliams
Research on “maternal wall bias” discrimination by UC Hastings Law Prof. @JoanCWilliams (Founding Director, @worklifelawctr) featured in @Science Magazine. by @ljevanso
Working mothers face a ‘wall’ of bias—but there are ways to push back
It’s something that “no one prepares you for,” as one faculty member and mother puts it
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Better Life Lab | The Art and Science of Living a Full and Healthy Life by Slate Magazine on Apple Podcasts
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27.6 million #women don’t have the basic protections needed by all #breastfeeding workers @WorkLifeLawCtr uncovers more in latest report: https://t.co/jjvrFq5MKt
Averages can be deceiving: On average, AAPI women face a 15¢ #wagegap. But disaggregate the data and you'll find that Burmese women only make HALF of what white men make. We marked #AAPIEqualPay Day on March 5 to say: we are #NotYourModelMinority! #EqualPayDay
The gender #wagegap is a chasm that prevents women from providing for ourselves and our families and saving for the future. #EqualPayDay
