by Kesia Brown | Jan 10, 2010 | Pregnancy Discrimination
If you haven’t seen the latest episodes of Desperate Housewives, you have missed more than just the usual melodrama swirling around the residents of Wisteria Lane. A new storyline may be all-too-familiar to many viewers — a woman facing pregnancy discrimination on the job.
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Kamala Harris speaking at the National Partnership Annual Gala (Washington, DC, 2016)
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Accountable care is well-positioned to make a significant impact on the health care needs of women. When it comes to the state of women’s health in the United States today, there is much to be desired. Evidence shows troubling trends to that end: the United States,...
This month, the future landscape of abortion access for millions of women in the United States changed overnight. In seven states, voters chose to protect or strengthen reproductive rights and abortion access. These states join six others where abortion has recently...
FACT SHEET | The wages of Native women are driven down by a number of factors that they are likely to encounter in the workplace and labor market, including gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that...
ISSUE BRIEF | Black women are family caregivers – and they need flexibility and economic supports to make the best decisions for themselves and their families
ISSUE BRIEF | The new Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) model is a crucial opportunity to improve outcomes for birthing people, especially those most affected by the maternal health crisis.
