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Maternity Leave: Taking Sex Differences Into Account, Nancy E. Dowd
Maternity Leave: Taking Sex Differences Into Account, Nancy E. Dowd
Nancy Dowd
This Article focuses on restructuring the workplace in the context of maternity leave. Although most women are no longer, and, indeed, generally cannot be required to take maternity leave, many are not guaranteed leave or may be provided only with inadequate leave. A minority of states have addressed this problem by enacting statutes requiring that all employers provide job-protected maternity leave. Two of the statutes, the California and Montana provisions, have been challenged as discriminatory under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and the Supreme Court has recently …
Bringing The Margin To The Center: Comprehensive Strategies For Work/Family Policies, Nancy E. Dowd
Bringing The Margin To The Center: Comprehensive Strategies For Work/Family Policies, Nancy E. Dowd
Nancy Dowd
The ultimate goal of work/family policy has always seemed deceptively clear: to provide institutional and cultural support to permit a healthy balance between family and work. An implicit assumption of that goal is that it would be achieved without undermining principles of equality. Indeed, the assumed result of work/family balance is that it would help achieve equality: families would be treated equally, caregivers would be supported equally, and children and family members would receive necessary and important care equally. It has long been recognized that work/family balance is especially critical to gender equality. Equality principles require that work/family policy and …
Race, Gender, And Work/Family Policy, Nancy Dowd
Race, Gender, And Work/Family Policy, Nancy Dowd
Nancy Dowd
Family leave is not an end in itself, but rather is part of a much bigger picture: work/family policy. The goal of work/family policy is to achieve a good society by supporting families. Ideally, families enable children to develop to their fullest capacity and to contribute to their communities and society. Public rhetoric in the United States has always strongly supported families. Our policies, however, have not. In the area of work/family policy, the United States continues to lag behind every other advanced industrialized country, as well as many developing countries, in the degree to which we provide affirmative support …