This dissertation analyzes the effect of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) on the labor force participation rates of married women with children. This Act required employers to treat pregnancy in the same way as a temporary disability. The effect of the PDA is assessed using two ...
Pregnancy Discrimination ActPDAAmericans with Disabilities ActADAaccommodationspregnancyemployment discriminationstatutory interpretationPregnancy — a health condition that only affects women — raises complicated questions regarding the interaction of employment policies addressing sex discrimina...
tends to be of limited effect, for example, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975. Women in patriarchal societies are discriminated against in areas such as employment, political and religious office, housing and major areas of social policy, in relation to property and in both civil and criminal ...
Pregnancy Discrimination Act ('PDA'), which clarified that 'all individuals should be fully protected against unjust discrimination, including pregnant workers.' Despite Congress's efforts to clearly recognize pregnancy discrimination as a Title VII violation, many courts have debated the meaning of the...
were concerns about the sex imbalance in the population.23 Concerns were further raised following the census of 1991,3–5 and a law banning the use of prenatal technologies for sex selection, the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act, was passed in 1994, which came into effect in 1996...
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act does not require preferential treatment for pregnant employees. Rather, it mandates that employers treat pregnant employees the same as non-pregnant employees who are similarly situated with respect to their ability to work. The PDA expands the definition of "sex" in...
The Attachment Gap: Employment Discrimination Law, Women's Cultural Caregiving, and the Limits of Economic and Liberal Legal Theory Title VII has prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of pregnancy since 1978, when Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act ("PDA"), but... LT ...
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), intended to protect women workers, excluded employers with fewer than 15 workers. 1 Based on the employer exemptions, the PDA, would have excluded about 80 percent of Idaho employers. However, the PDA as executed under Idaho's law banning sex ...
DEFINING DISPARATE TREATMENT UNDER THE PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION ACT: HALL V. NALCO CO., W HAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE IN A CLASS OF YOUR OWN DEFINING DISPARATE TREATMENT UNDER THE PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION ACT: HALL V. NALCO CO., W HAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE IN A CLASS OF YOUR OWNThe article ...
DEFINING DISPARATE TREATMENT UNDER THE PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION ACT: HALL V. NALCO CO., WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE IN A CLASS OF YOUR OWN Indiana Law ReviewPaynter, E. Ashley