Pregnancy discrimination has a major impact on the labor forces around the world. For centuries, women fought for equal rights in both society and in the labor force. If both men and women came from a woman’s womb, then why should women be discriminated against her human’s rights? Employers sometime feel that if a woman is pregnant, she is going to be irrational and hormonal. Unfortunately, that applies to all women and also men. Women have been oppressed of their rights for as long as the earth was made in both her natural rights and human’s rights.
One the very first Supreme Court case that deal with pregnancy discrimination was Muller vs. Oregon in 1908. It was a Supreme Court case that opens many doors for women since it justified both sex discrimination and the usage of labor laws. Curt Muller, the owner of Grand Laundry, a local laundromat, was fined $10 for making a laundress work more than 10 hours on a single day. He appealed to both the Oregon Supreme Court and then to the U.S Supreme Court, but he was convicted ("69 American Bar Association").
In 1978, Congress enacted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act “to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.” ("Pregnancy Discrimination Act")
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According to eeoc.gov, just in the year 2014, 3,400 pregnancy discrimination charges were filed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Fair Employment Practice Agency ("Pregnancy Discrimination Charges"). The National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) stated that they protect “all women, particularly pregnant and parenting women and those who are most vulnerable including low income women, women of color, and drug-using women.” ("GUIDE TO