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2 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Bathrooms have been at the center of several recent controversies—most notably, of course, involving North Carolina’s HB2, an unconstitutional law that prevents transgender individuals from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity at any public school or university and in any governmental building. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In the 1983 movie Nine to Five, Dabney Coleman plays the perfect feminist foil. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
You’d have to be living under a rock these days to not hear of the absurd op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal by (not Dr.) [read post]
8 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Aileen Rizo discovered a simple fact and brought it to her employer’s attention: she was paid less for doing the same job as her male counterparts. [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace is an intractable problem, one that has resulted in a startling number of claims each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)—rising at a faster rate than women are joining the workforce—and increased media attention. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Can an employer require a pregnant employee to run 1.5 miles as part of a bi-annual fitness qualification program? [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl in the 1960s television show, recently passed away. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
There was a time in the not too distant past when the authorization of same-sex marriage was squarely a blue-state phenomenon. [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In 2015, the Supreme Court altered the course of pregnancy discrimination law with a ruling in which it clarified the circumstances under which the denial of a necessary accommodation to a pregnant employee would violate federal discrimination law. [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
After several years of advocacy, the Connecticut Legislature recently passed the Connecticut Parentage Act, a comprehensive bill designed to modernize the rules regarding the creation of legal parent-child ties. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
Part Two in a Two-Part SeriesProposed new Title IX regulations purport to help students who experience sexual harassment and assault, but predominantly help schools and those accused of sexual violence instead. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Ethan and Aiden shared a womb for nine months, were born four minutes apart, and, yet, in the eyes of the US State Department, did not share US citizenship at birth. [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 12:01 am by Joanna L. Grossman
The EEOC just filed a lawsuit against United Airlines alleging that it failed to protect a female flight attendant from sexual harassment by a pilot, in violation of its obligations under federal anti-discrimination law. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
There are plenty of features of American society that might make women want to retreat to protected spaces. [read post]
8 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
This week marks the one-year anniversary of Harvey Weinstein’s fall from grace, after the New York Times published a bombshell investigative article about a lifetime of egregious sexual misdeeds. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The relationship between sex discrimination and sexual orientation discrimination has always been somewhat of a contested issue. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
A.W. and M.S. had been friends and, at one point roommates, but never intimately involved. [read post]