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!
#BiasInterrupters will continue to be relevant in 2019! Read more about the report and astonishing underlying research in #Perspectives Magazine: @mccalaw @WorkLifeLawCtr
NEW! You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession
On September 4, the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession (CWP), in conjunction with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), released t...
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Cases like Rachel’s, in which an employer discriminated against an employee for #BFing or needing to pump at work, increased 800% from 2006-2016. via @worklifelawctr
Bias has no place in the legal profession. @ABAWomen, @mccalaw & @WorkLifeLawCtr are proud to produce our latest research endeavor, #BiasInterrupters. @ABAesq members can access it here: https://t.co/ix5K0n3NuV #womenlawyers
Pioneering work on caregiver discrimination & how #genderbias differs by race - Help us keep going by donating today! #GivingTuesday!
In our study on workplaces in India, Prove It Again bias was prominent: 76% of engineers reported having to prove themselves over and over to get the same level of respect as their colleagues @SWEtalk @WorkLifeLawCtr
My latest study on workplace bias in India with @SWEtalk @WorkLifeLawCtr strikingly revealed women in India experience gender bias and men in India experience bias based on location and language. Read more in the full report: "Walking the Tightrope" at https://t.co/DRPAtv62Pk
