Sen. Elizabeth Warren stands by account of pregnancy discrimination
WASHINGTON — It's a staple in her campaign stump speech: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., explains how she was fired from her first teaching job in Riverdale, New Jersey, because she was pregnant.on this aspect of her personal narrative.
Two months later, minutes from a board meeting on June 16, 1971, say Warren's resignation was"accepted with regret." At that point, Warren would have been about six months pregnant — and likely showing. Her daughter was born Sept. 2, 1971. Congress did not pass the Pregnancy Discrimination Act until 1978, and it was historically not uncommon for women to experience job discrimination for being pregnant. And astalk at the University of California at Berkeley
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