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.
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.
WorkLife Law is launching the Bias at Work Survey, a new project from our Bias Interrupters initiative. Bias at Work is a national survey gathering real-world data on workplace bias from people all across the United States. We are asking women and men in any kind of work setting to share their experiences anonymously. Our researchers will analyze the survey data with the goal of creating tools that more accurately combat workplace bias and helps to advance workplace equity.
Take the survey— and share with your friends!
Need to understand your local #paidsick time law or want to compare different #paidsicktime laws on the books? @ABetterBalance has a new interactive online tool:
ABB Launches New Online Tool for Comparing Paid Sick Time Laws!
Our new paid sick time tool allows you to compare and contrast various paid sick time laws, to filter and sort the data about these laws by various fa...
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#QuestionOfTheDay: How would you describe #teachers, #nurses, and #firstresponders? --- Let us know what comes to mind!
It's #ElectionDay --- for information about your polling place visit: https://t.co/iMuhuMT9SW #GoVote!
“Some law firms pay to ship breast milk home when lawyers are on a work trip. Some people lose their jobs over this.” ~ Liz Morris explaining the wide range of #breastfeeding accommodations (or lack there of) in the #legal field. Read more here >
For Breast-Pumping Lawyer Moms, Accommodations Often Fall Short | Law.com
MothersEsquire a group with 3000 lawyer-moms spread around the nation is working to improve workplace conditions.
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A #scarystat: women engineers and engineers of color experience workplace hurdles that do not exist for white men. Our 4-step #biasinterrupters approach helps organizations root out gender and racial bias in their workplace processes
4 Evidence-Based Steps To Rooting Out Gender and Racial Bias In Engineering
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...
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In 1978, Congress passed the #PregnancyDiscriminationAct to protect women against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace --- 40 years later we still need it. If you’re pregnant or want to learn more about #pregnancy in the workplace visit: #PDA40
