Title VII has prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of pregnancy since 1978, when Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act ("PDA"), but it does not require employers to recognize women's caregiving obligations beyond ... LT Kessler - 《University of Michigan Journal of Law Ref...
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Throughout the world, women are faced with economic discrimination as well as a lack of educational opportunities often promoted through patriarchal cultures and a lack of representation in government and policymaking bodies 8, 14. Because more women throughout the world are heads of households, it...
The scholar Dorothy Roberts (1998) has chronicled this relationship by documenting the appropriation of Black women’s reproductive freedom through systematic, institutionalized decisions based on a convergence of race and gender discrimination. This process of appropriation, according to Roberts, started ...
Next, it looks at the history of pregnancy discrimination and the remedial measures available to plaintiffs. Then, the Note turns to the ADA and discusses the current law regarding what constitutes a disability, pregn...