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.
Today marks #EqualPay Day - or the date in the new year when women overall finally earn what men overall made last year alone.
Quick Facts About the Gender Wage Gap - Center for American Progress
This fact sheet defines the gender wage gap, identifies what drives it, and quantifies its impact on women and their families.
tinyurl.com
Today is #EqualPayDay, when the average woman’s pay catches up to the pay for all men from the previous year. It means that women, on average, have to work an additional three months to make as much money as men, on average.
Here’s how the pay gap breaks down:
STUDENT PARENTS we want to hear from you! How are you managing (or not) with kids out of school?
How can your institutions or professors support you?
Reply or DM!
Interested in #advancing #wocintech? The @theNASEM
Committee on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech is hosting a 2 day virtual workshop on April 7th and 8th.
Learn more about this great opportunity here:
Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech: Day 1
The second of four regional workshops to learn more about increasing recruitment, retention, and advancement of women of color in tech.
www.eventbrite.com
To all the #caregivers out there, I know just how much you are juggling right now. I hope this #throwback sparks some joy.
One silver lining: we're all finally investing the time necessary to make #flexworking a reality for an extraordinarily broad range of jobs. An inflection point for workplace flexibility in the future?
A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers
Leaders need to adapt to the new normal.
hbr.org
