Marcia Greenberger, founder of the National Women’s Law Center, says the case will be critical in the fight for women’s rights and employee rights. “The bigger the employer, the more important the class-action feature,” Ms. Greenberger said at a recent American Constitution Society discussion.
Some of the nation's largest businesses, including Del Monte Foods and General Electric, and the most prominent civil rights organizations, including the NAACP and National Women's Law Center, have lined up on opposite sides of a case that has become one of the most watched of the term.
Lining up on the plaintiffs side are groups including the National Women’s Law Center, the National Partnership for Women and Families, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO and the ACLU.
Panel Discussion with NWLC Co-President Marcia Greenberger, Heather Boushey, Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress, and Hannah Seligson, journalist and author of "New Girl on the Job."
The case will have far-reaching implications for working women who challenge discrimination, women's rights advocate Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Law Center said. "The ability of women to be treated fairly in the workplace hangs in the balance," Greenberger said.
"The recovery is really not happening for women at all," said Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the National Women's Law Center in Washington. "It's a slow recovery overall, but it's really leaving women behind."
According to a new report by the National Women’s Law Center, women lost about 3 in every 10 jobs cut between December 2007 and June 2009 but filled fewer than 1 in every 10 jobs since job growth picked up in 2010.
