Gillian Thomas is a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project and author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work.
The Court has decided, time and time again, that it is illegal to rely on a stereotype about a group in making a decision about an individual employee. It's not clear whether Gorsuch agrees.
Given that 85 percent of working women will become pregnant at least once in their careers, it doesn’t take an expert economist to understand that pregnancy discrimination isn’t just a civil rights issue, it’s a financial one. But almost four decades after the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, women in male-dominated professions and low-wage work are still fighting to parent and work.
