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WLP Launches Program to Help Pennsylvanians Facing Pregnancy & Lactation Discrimination
Women’s Law Project, a state-based public interest legal organization focused on gender justice with offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, announces a new program to help pregnant and lactating people in Pennsylvania navigate workplace and school-based...
LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day
June 15 marks LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day. This day is an opportunity to spread awareness about wage gap data on LGBTQIA+ workers, as well as the general disparities that continue to affect the LGBTQIA+ communities. LGBTQ+ workers are paid approximately 90 cents...
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[Action Alert] June in Harrisburg: Banning Abortion & Bullying Trans Kids
Pennsylvania has the lowest minimum wage and one of the highest rates of pregnancy discrimination complaints in the country, and a bill to provide reasonable accommodations for lactating employees so they can continue breastfeeding after returning to work is still...
We’re Calling for an Investigation
Fifty years into Title IX, achieving equitable opportunity for education remains a huge challenge. Laws are passed but then not uniformly enforced. Policies are clarified only to discover some school administrations learn how to strategically skirt mandates and...
PA Senate to Vote on First Step to Criminalizing Abortion
Abortion is still legal in Pennsylvania. But as we await the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (expected in late June), anti-abortion lawmakers across the country aren’t even waiting for the ruling to try to criminalize abortion...
