Jack Tuckner

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Women's rights lawyer and girl dad: fighting for fair treatment- from pregnancy through menopause, and all forms of sex discrimination

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Five Accommodations Your Boss Can't Legally Deny You During #Pregnancy pregnancy #worklife #disability #maternity #disability

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Trump posted recently about bombing Iran. And if we somehow survive this week, we’re still going to work Monday. So here’s what you need to know right now about your pregnancy and menopause rights. The laws have never been better. Use them. #pregnant #menopause #perimenopause

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Your employer CAN'T force you to choose between your pregnancy and your paycheck. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (2023) requires employers with 15+ employees to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions…

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They're defunding the Women's Bureau.
Cutting programs for Women in apprenticeships. The Defense Secretary doesn't want his son serving alongside women. This is what erasing women from the workplace looks like.
#workplace #women #sexism #employmentlaw #misogyny

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Last day of Women’s History Month. In 1851 in Akron Ohio the men in the crowd were heckling the women speakers. Saying women were too weak and fragile to deserve equal rights. A woman stood up. She was born into slavery. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth -#AintIAWoman

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Can you believe we’ve spent 50 years debating whether women should control their own bodies. And the whole time we were also punishing them at work for getting pregnant. Damned if you do damned if you don’t. That’s been the deal for women in America forever.

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If we survive the comet, it’s never been better for women in the workplace. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The PUMP Act. Menopause protections here and coming. Equal pay enforcement. Civil rights laws still alive and well. A law you don’t raise. Protections you don’t raise.

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You know RBG. Now meet the woman whose shoulders she stood on. Pauli Murray. Born 1910. Black. Gender nonconforming before the world had language for it. Refused to give up her bus seat 15 years before Rosa Parks. Co-founded NOW. Badass before badass was a word.
#PauliMurray

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1st woman tenured professor at Columbia Law School. 2nd woman ever on the Supreme Court. Her dying wish was not to be replaced until a new president took office. She died during Trump's first term. Eight days later Amy Coney Barrett was nominated. May her memory be a revolution.

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115 years ago today, 146 garment workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Out of their deaths came OSHA, the minimum wage, child labor laws, the 40-hour work week. And right now we are rolling every single one of those protections back.

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The first Black woman elected to Congress came from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Shirley Chisholm took no PAC money, no party boss money, ran for president in 1972, won delegates, and told the entire political establishment to have a seat. Unbought and unbossed. We need more of her.

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We just spent $12 billion on a war nobody voted for. We’re cutting food for pregnant women & newborns. Childcare costs more than college tuition.Women’s History Month asks us to celebrate women. I’m asking something harder. When do we declare war on misogyny? #WomensHistoryMonth

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54 years ago today, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment. All it said was: equality of rights cannot be denied on account of sex. It never became law. Not once in 250 years has the United States constitutionally guaranteed equal rights for women.

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You wanna know how your perimenopause and menopause symptoms are already protected in the workplace? Menopause Workers Fairness Act is in the works - we’ve been working on it with Congress and the EEOC.

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It’s Women’s History Month and I’m celebrating you. Today’s women. The modern, living, working woman. Because despite all the misogyny, the sexism, and the insanity going on around us right now, the laws protecting women in the workplace have never been stronger. #WomensHistory

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Yesterday, Dolores Huerta - co-founder of the United Farm Workers, the woman who coined “Si se puede,” Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, one of the most important labor leaders in American history - told the world that Cesar Chavez raped her #SurvivorStory #metoo

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They weren’t trying to be historic. They were just refusing to shut up. That’s every woman I’ve ever represented in 27 years. That’s every woman watching right now who’s being told she’s too much, too loud, too old, too angry. You’re not too anything. You’re just not shrinking.

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It's #StPatricksDay You know who Mother Jones was? Irish immigrant - the “most dangerous woman in America.” She spent the next 50 years organizing coal miners and fighting child labor. At 83 they threw her in prison. At 93 she was still on the picket line. #WomensHistoryMonth

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Peggy Young was a UPS driver with a high-risk pregnancy. She changed the law for every pregnant worker in America.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensRights #pregnant #Pregnancy #feminism

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Until 1993, there were states in this country where a husband could not legally be charged with raping his wife. The law said marriage was consent.

#maritalrape #WomensHistoryMonth #feminism #feminist #consentmatters