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Fired for being pregnant: Another Kind of Discrimination Women Face at Work

There's also been a movement among states to pass laws granting pregnant employees the right to reasonable accommodations while on the job. Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have such laws, 17 of which were passed...

Trump Didn’t Mention Women Once During His State of the Union address, Amid #MeToo Movement

“We know where we stand in Trump's vision of our union,” tweeted the National Women's Law Center after his speech.

#MeToo comes to the State of the Union with Rep. Jackie Speier urging colleagues to wear black

Speier, who is pushing for changes to the sexual harassment policies on Capitol Hill and revealed her own negative experience as a Hill staffer, is bringing Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women's Law Center,...

Recy Taylor was Gang-Raped In 1944. Her Niece’s Silence at Trump’s Speech Will Say Everything

Fatima Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center; Kimberly Peeler-Allen, co-founder of Higher Heights for America; Elizabeth Meyer, founder of the Women’s March on New Jersey; Beth Hubbard, a documentary film producer; Enchanta Jackson,...

David Schwimmer sets out to show men ‘That’s Harassment,’ shoot down ‘Friends’ reunion

He says they've taken the short films created last year and cut them down to 10, 20 and 30-second PSAs that just began running in New York taxis and are getting network pickup. They've also partnered with...

Bank of America is the latest company to ban this dreaded job-interview question

Yet it is also another sign that workplace laws enacted in a growing number of states — and at the global level — are beginning to have a broader impact. According to the National Women's Law Center,...