Metrics are crucial to realizing true progress on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Our new White Paper and accompanying article in the Harvard Business Review Magazine provide organizations with a roadmap for building best-practice, data-driven DEI initiatives while controlling for legal risk.

The Center for WorkLife Law is pleased to welcome Asma Ghani as our new Research Associate. Asma has a background in Social Psychology and her research expertise lies in examining how multiple social identities and systems of oppression overlap to create multilayered inequity and how best to mitigate that inequity. Working with the research team, Asma will be running a series of experiments with companies designed to reduce bias in hiring, performance evaluations, and access to career-enhancing opportunities.

Read our latest article in the Harvard Business Review on “What It’s Like to Be a Woman of Color in Architecture” with data from our study of gender and racial bias in the architecture profession.

WorkLife Law is honored to be featured in the New York Times Opinion 2021 Holiday Gift Giving Guide amongst this list of amazing organizations united in their missions to help mothers during these trying times.

Read Work Life Law Director Joan C. William’s op-ed in Politico highlighting the financial hardship many middle-income workers are experiencing due a lack of workplace flexibility that is becoming increasingly available to higher-income workers. The piece discusses the long-term implications of blanket return-to-office policies for gender and racial equality as well as employer and government policies that can make a difference.

We found an elephant in the room: white men are having a different experience than all other groups in architecture workplaces. Women of color reported the worst experiences overall, with white women and men of color falling in between. Read the full report here. 

The problem is real, but so is the solution. Our report includes Bias Interrupters toolkits for interrupting bias in hiring, assignments, performance evaluations, meetings, family leave and workplace flexibility.

Legal rights for lactating workers are important – for maternal and child health, health equity, family economic security, and the fair treatment of women in the workplace. This policy advocacy toolkit has everything you need from model statutory language to messaging and strategy tips.

Our “Care Comes of Age” GoFundMe campaign is both a celebration of the progress we’ve made to advance the workplace rights of family caregivers over the last 25 years and a call to action to ensure this pivotal moment produces lasting change. Your generous support enables us to continue this critical work to advance legal protections for family caregivers. Read our Annual Newsletter here.

At the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee biannual Membership Meeting, WorkLife Law staff attorney Jessica Lee addressed USBC’s 100+ member organizations, who are working collaboratively to drive policy and practice changes that create a landscape of breastfeeding support. Watch Jessica’s inspiring “Mission Moment” — acknowledging both the struggles of this unprecedented time and the hope on the horizon for working families. As Jessica says, “We’re close to seeing some of the biggest changes and advances in racial equity in maternal and infant health in a decade, if not a generation…The PUMP Act, and so many of the efforts that give me hope, have only happened because of the community fostered here at the USBC. You bring our diverse experiences and skills together to make a beautiful and strong force working on behalf of families.”