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Respecting Moms on Mother’s Day

Posted May 13th, 2012 by ACLU

By Tiseme Gabriella Zegeye, ACLU Women’s Rights Project

The current presidential campaign has brought attention to the "war on women" and the "war on moms," with both Republicans and Democrats speaking out on the need to recognize and value the work mothers do in raising their children. Attention to this question is long overdue, and it is critical that we evaluate why our society has devalued the unpaid domestic labor women perform. However, what is missing from this political debate is the fact that the work of many mothers and pregnant women is undervalued in all the work they do, and often have to do, in addition to raising their children. Discrimination against mothers, pregnant women and girls in employment and education is rampant, and it has especially adverse effects on lower-income and minority women and girls.

Pregnant women in the United States are frequently forced out of their jobs, and, appallingly, some courts have been letting employers get away with this, ignoring

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