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14 Apr 2020, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Mary Ziegler
The global pandemic wrought by COVID-19 has brought unprecedented chaos to virtually every aspect of our lives. [read post]
When President Trump returned to the White House after four days in Walter Reed Hospital due to contracting COVID-19, his first act was to remove his face mask on camera and to shove it into his pocket. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Nine months into Trump’s all-out war on women, it came as little surprise when the president officially rolled back the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate by allowing employers with religious or moral objections to exempt themselves. [read post]
As many in the United States struggle with unemployment, layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts, and other adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, pregnant women struggle just to be treated just like everyone else. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Elizabeth Warren reported that her contract as a teacher was not renewed when she was visibly pregnant at the end of her first year. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Natalie Nanasi
One need not scroll too far down any news or social media feed these days to find a conservative diatribe against no-fault divorce. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Grant Hayden
Today, the Supreme Court will hear argument in three cases that could have monumental impact on federal anti-discrimination law. [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
On September 1, 2021, the law known as “SB 8” took effect in Texas. [read post]
7 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Rather than using his position of power to help people cope with the raging COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
I wrote about a bill called the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) in 2012, when it was introduced in Congress for the first time. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Dale Carpenter
Texas law requires children who attend public schools to begin their days with this trifecta: the Pledge of Allegiance, the Texas Pledge (“Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible”), and a minute of silence to “reflect, pray, meditate, or engage in any other silent activity that is not likely to interfere with or distract another student. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Let’s start with a stunning fact: a Texas law that unconstitutionally bans 85-90% of pre-viability abortions has now been in effect for six weeks. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
It’s a tale as old as time: a woman in power obviously slept her way to the top. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Saraswati Rathod
Joanna Harper, a researcher and medical physicist, estimates that only 50 out of 200,000 athletes competing in women’s college sports are transgender (or 0.025%). [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Media reports abound about a lawsuit filed by a woman in California against a man in Georgia who hired her to carry children for him as a surrogate. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Although the Supreme Court’s endorsement in 2015 of the right of same-sex couples to marry clarified the status of same-sex couples—or at least their options vis-à-vis formal status—it left open a variety of questions about the formal parent-child relationships in same-sex-couple families. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
One might watch the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black and think that the rampant sexual encounters in the prison—involving the warden, correctional officers, and inmates in various pairings—are trumped up to appeal to the prurient interests of viewers. [read post]