Add to ORKGOne focal point of this debate has been the courts, which have been asked repeatedly to decide whether employers’ failure to provide insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives constitutes either sex discrimination or pregnancy discrimination. Now, the very same legal issue is at the core of a recent ruling by a federal judge in EEOC v. Houston Funding Inc. that lactation discrimination is not actionable under Title VII or the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) because lactation is, the judge reasoned, not related to pregnancy. In this column, I’ll consider this recent case, as well as earlier cases on contraceptive equity and infertility discrimination, which raise similar questions about how far the law goes— and should go—to prote...
For over twenty years, the federal courts of appeals have been divided over the extent to which the ...
Pregnancy discrimination exhibits a coherent social logic. The exclusion of women from employment on...
On March 25, 2015, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in Young v. UPS, Inc.—the most recent case in...
A burgeoning menstrual justice movement calls attention to menstruation-related discrimination in wo...
In its recent decision Hall v. Nalco, the Seventh Circuit became the first Federal Circuit Court of ...
The ramifications of the Court\u27s reasoning in Geduldig v. Aiello are clear upon an equally cursor...
Pregnancy discrimination was once used to marginalize female workers. Today, infertility discriminat...
The ink had barely dried on the Supreme Court\u27s 1976 opinion in General Electric Co. v. Gilbert w...
Thirty-five years ago, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act to overturn a Supreme Court ...
This paper analyzes employment discrimination faced by women due to unique biological characteristic...
The U.S. Supreme Court, in General Electric v. Gilbert, held that the exclusion of pregnancy benefit...
As the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA) turns forty, it is time to consider how we define ...
The Supreme Court granted certiorari on July 1, 2014, in the Fourth Circuit case of Young v. United ...
Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace is an intractable problem, one that has resulted in a star...
In a recent decision the Supreme Court held that a private employer\u27s disability benefits plan wh...
For over twenty years, the federal courts of appeals have been divided over the extent to which the ...
Pregnancy discrimination exhibits a coherent social logic. The exclusion of women from employment on...
On March 25, 2015, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in Young v. UPS, Inc.—the most recent case in...
A burgeoning menstrual justice movement calls attention to menstruation-related discrimination in wo...
In its recent decision Hall v. Nalco, the Seventh Circuit became the first Federal Circuit Court of ...
The ramifications of the Court\u27s reasoning in Geduldig v. Aiello are clear upon an equally cursor...
Pregnancy discrimination was once used to marginalize female workers. Today, infertility discriminat...
The ink had barely dried on the Supreme Court\u27s 1976 opinion in General Electric Co. v. Gilbert w...
Thirty-five years ago, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act to overturn a Supreme Court ...
This paper analyzes employment discrimination faced by women due to unique biological characteristic...
The U.S. Supreme Court, in General Electric v. Gilbert, held that the exclusion of pregnancy benefit...
As the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA) turns forty, it is time to consider how we define ...
The Supreme Court granted certiorari on July 1, 2014, in the Fourth Circuit case of Young v. United ...
Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace is an intractable problem, one that has resulted in a star...
In a recent decision the Supreme Court held that a private employer\u27s disability benefits plan wh...
For over twenty years, the federal courts of appeals have been divided over the extent to which the ...
Pregnancy discrimination exhibits a coherent social logic. The exclusion of women from employment on...
On March 25, 2015, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in Young v. UPS, Inc.—the most recent case in...