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Peer reviewedEdwards, Mark Evan – Social Forces, 1996
Analysis of 82 court cases involving pregnancy discrimination, 1972-91, shows that this litigation revealed the gender bias of equal employment opportunity law and capitalist economic relations, eroded assumptions about economic imperatives for not accommodating pregnant workers, and laid the groundwork for the Family and Medical Leave Act of…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Capitalism, Court Litigation, Employer Employee Relationship
