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.
From 2006 -2016 cases of workplace #discrimination against #caregivers increased 2️⃣6️⃣9️⃣%
This bill is a big step forward — helping employees w/ caregiving responsibilities do right by both their families & their employers.
Sen. Booker Introduces Legislation Protecting Family Caregivers from Discrimination
Sen. Booker Introduces Legislation Protecting Family Caregivers from Discrimination
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This #Momsequalpayday, check out the #wagegap for moms by race in your state Via @nwlc : https://nwlc.org/resources/the-wage-gap-for-mothers-state-by-state-2017/
Nationally:
Black mothers are paid 50 ¢ for every $ paid to white, non-Hispanic fathers
Native American mothers: 47 ¢
Latina mothers: 45 ¢
AAPI mothers: 89 ¢
Black & Latina women spend nearly twice as much time on unpaid household & care work as their male counterparts. The current public health crisis has increased this burden, as school, daycare, & family care all function from the home. #MomsEqualPay
Pay discrimination steals so much from each Black woman across the country. For Black moms, it undermines not only their economic stability, but the financial security of their families and communities. #MomsEqualPay
Get the facts this #MomsEqualPay Day.
Moms overall compared to dads overall: 70¢
Black moms*: 50¢
Latina moms*: 45¢
Native moms*: 47¢
White moms*: 69¢
AAPI moms*: 89¢
*Compared to white, non-Hispanic dads
On #MomsEqualPay Day, we can’t ignore the fact that working from home during the #coronavirus pandemic is a privilege 70% of workers don’t have. Low-wage Black & Latinx employees, already experiencing unfair pay, are least likely to "wfh" & stay employed.
Not everybody can work from home: Black and Hispanic workers are much less likely to be able to telework
The commonly paired statements that “everyone is working from home” and “everyone is having their goods delivered” amid the coronavirus outbre...
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