Archive for February 15, 2016

Since 1999, the percentage of women in the American workforce has been steadily decreasing, and rests at just 69% today. In Part 1 of this blog, our firm discussed some of the causes behind this trend, and began a discussion of how American women can combat some of the forces that make it difficult for them to remain in the workplace. Here, in Part 2, we focus on the particular challenges working mothers face at work during pregnancy and the

It’s no secret that women in the workforce endure a set of difficulties distinct from those that men do—and that the problems women face have vast implications for their lives both within and outside of the workplace. In particular, in New York and the United States at large, the choice to start a family can have drastic and lasting consequences for a woman’s career.

Without having done much research, one might assume that the United States is a country with one