Pregnancy discrimination

According to Guzzo and Hayford, 2012, pregnancy fatalism is a very real factor for Black women that, at its core, includes a belief that it is futile to try to control when one gets pregnant. There is also an overestimated worry about the efficacy and side effects of using birth control, particularly…

is skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth. 2. How is low birth weight defined? Gestational age? Identify five risk factors associated with LBW and preterm birth. Low birth weight (LBW) is defined as a birth weight of a live born child who weighs less than 5 pounds and 8 ounces at birth. Gestational age is defined as the age of a pregnancy starting count from the…

I faced discrimination, but I, Mary Tyler Moore, still powered through. My television series brought up topics that no one would bring up in the seventies. My television series helped break the stereotypes of women. I was born a dancer at heart on December 29, 1936. I danced before I walked and carried that passion all the way through high school. But when I turned seventeen, I starred in my first commercial, quickly leaving behind my dancing career and beginning to start a new career, acting.…

(PGD) is a method used prior to implantation to help identify genetic defects within embryos created through in vitro fertilization. This procedure is used to help prevent particular diseases or disorders from being passed on to the infant (American Pregnancy Association). Science cannot only help couples that are unable to have babies, but it can help them have babies they want. However, where should the line be drawn for modern reproductive medicine? (Kalb 2004). Sperm-sorting technology in…

In the past, maternal leave has had a troubled history in legislation. Women have had to fight multiple times in court to access time off for childcare. In the United States where the consensus is that working hard equates to your dreams coming true, significant time off work seems retrograde in obtaining one’s goals. Throughout history as more women entered the workforce, a divide formed between business and motherhood. In today’s society, maternal leave is a term left behind for a more…

Memorandum of Law TO: Greene’s Jewelry Legal Counsel FROM: Jana Johnson RE: Jennifer Lawson-Unlawful Termination and Breach of Confidentiality DATE: November 4, 2016 INTRODUCTION Jennifer Lawson has filed suit for wrongful termination and Greene’s Jewelry has filed suit for breach of confidentiality. The case will require Greene’s Jewelry to defend its innocence and prove that it was within its legal rights to terminate Ms. Lawson and in turn, file suit for breach of confidentiality based…

make the pregnancy more vulnerable. Another biological risk is that IVF can lead to multiple pregnancies, as to increase the chance of a pregnancy taking, multiple embryos are inserted. In the case of multiple foetuses there is more chance of pregnancy complications. Another risk is that there is no guarantee that these procedures will result in a successful pregnancy. Approximately 20% of all PGD procedures result in a pregnancy, however this data does not detail the health of the pregnancy and…

person requires more of parents. Why the parent who didn’t sign up the for this additional responsibility be forced to bare such responsibility? Is it a question of right versus right? The pregnant women’s right to not reproduce, to terminate a pregnancy. The fetus’s right to life. An argument put forward by the DRC, Parent Attitude Argument provides some answers to the questions. The argument claims that using prenatal testing to opt against some traits indicates…

Lean in, is a book that chronicles the struggles that women have in the workplace, especially the struggles caused by gender-biased beliefs. I believe Sheryl Sandberg wrote it with the purpose of encouraging other women to speak up. “I never thought I would write a book. I am not a scholar, a journalist, or a sociologist. But I decided to speak out after talking to hundreds of women, listening to their struggles and sharing my own” said Sandberg (p 9). Sandberg, provides examples of her…

This lecture, presented by the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, was about Title IX. According to this lecture, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance. Apart from discrimination, Title IX also covers sexual violence, which has a number of variations, including sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and forcible and non-forcible…