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'We Need a #MeToo Movement' for Pregnancy Discrimination

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 8, 2018

Dina Bakst, attorney, co-founder and co-president of A Better Balance, a legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the rights of working families, discusses her class action lawsuit against Walmart alleging discrimination against pregnant women, and Gillian Thomas, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, weighs in on the legal protections available to pregnant women in New York and in the country.

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