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Tag Archives: workplace equality
The U.S. “Motherhood Penalty” Isn’t Getting Any Better
The motherhood penalty refers to the economic disadvantage of becoming a mother in the United States. For example, research has repeatedly shown that mothers earn less money than women without children. A new report analyzing three time periods going back … Continue reading
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Women’s Equality Advocates Sue the Trump Administration over Equal Pay
The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration on behalf of NWLC and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement for illegally rolling back critical pay transparency requirements intended to root out discrimination and close the wage gap. … Continue reading
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Pennsylvania Falls Further Behind While Workplace Protections for Pregnant and Nursing Women Take Effect in Connecticut and Nevada
Starting this month, women in Connecticut and Nevada have stronger legal protections if they need reasonable workplace accommodations while they are pregnant or nursing. These two states, like twenty-one others across the country, have each passed a law that explicitly grants … Continue reading
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The “Double Bind” of Anti-Choice Policies & Workplace Discrimination
What do you call it when lawmakers restrict access to abortion–but also fail to implement family-friendly workplace policies that would enable women to support themselves and their children? A double bind. Or here in Pennsylvania, we call it business as … Continue reading
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Op-ed: Pennsylvania fails new mothers in the workplace
This is an excerpt of an editorial written by WLP’s Amal Bass and Tara Murtha recently published on PennLive.com: Twenty-six years after the World Health Organization and other international groups signed a document calling to protect, promote and support … Continue reading
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Webinar Invite: Advocating for Breastfeeding Workers in Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, many moms are forced to choose between breastfeeding babies and earning a paycheck when their employers prevent them from expressing milk in the workplace. It is a basic biological fact that a woman who recently gave birth simply … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, Breastfeeding, breastfeeding mothers, HB1100, Pennsylvania, webinar, workplace equality
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Op-ed: A Decade of Failing Pennsylvania Workers
Today marks 10 years since the Pennsylvania General Assembly voted to raise the state minimum wage. At $7.25 per hour, it is the lowest permitted by federal law. WLP Managing Attorney Terry L. Fromson wrote an editorial about this … Continue reading
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Follow the PA Campaign for Women’s Health on Facebook
When the phrase “women’s health” is uttered in the halls of the Capitol in Harrisburg, it is often simply code for yet another abortion ban. Meanwhile, women’s health and economic security in Pennsylvania ranks among the worst in the country. … Continue reading
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5 Reasons To Raise the Minimum Wage in PA
Today, advocates once again called for Pennsylvania to raise the minimum wage at yet another rally at the Capitol in Harrisburg. There’s plenty of evidence that it would be good for both the economy and workers—especially female workers—to raise the … Continue reading
PA Workers Deserve Equal Protection from Pregnancy Discrimination
Thirty-seven years ago this week, President Carter signed into law the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The PDA prohibits employers from firing, demoting, refusing to hire, or otherwise discriminating … Continue reading
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