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Fetal Rights, Women's Rights: Gender Equality in the Workplace
University of Wisconsin Press, 1995 Cloth: 978-0-299-14540-8 | Paper: 978-0-299-14544-6 | eISBN: 978-0-299-14543-9 Library of Congress Classification HD6067.2.U6S25 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 331.44
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In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, many private employers in the United States enacted fetal protection policies that barred fertile women—that is, women who had not been surgically sterilized—from working in jobs that might expose fetuses to toxins. In Fetal Rights, Women’s Rights, Suzanne Samuels analyzes these policies and the ambiguous responses to them by federal and state courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, litigants, and interest groups. She poses provocative questions about the implicit links between social welfare concerns and paternalism in the workplace, including: are women workers or wombs? See other books on: Fetus | Pregnant women | Sex discrimination in employment | Women's rights | Workplace See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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