This week’s Supreme Court hearing of Young vs. UPS has special meaning for so many New Yorkers who called for the passage of the NYS Women’s Equality Act. The pregnancy provision of WEA would cover just the situation Peggy Young faced when UPS pushed her into unpaid leave, instead of affording her small accommodations offered to other workers. That’s why the  Women’s Equality Coalition is calling  on the legislature to take action to protect pregnant workers . Read the press release.

NYS PowHER was one of the voices in the #StandwithPeggy twitter storm on Wednesday (share this image), and we will be again until women are protected against discrimination in the workplace. These policies matter to not only the health of mothers and babies, but to the economic well-being and security of families. Because women head more than 1,000,000 households in New York, and more than 63% of working mothers in New York are primary breadwinners or co-breadwinner, addressing these career obstacles are also a financial imperative.

For the news highlights on the case and pregnancy discrimination read our latest installment of Economic Equity News.

The photo above is credit to A Better Balance/ Jeffrey Martin.