.EWarren is helping to share other women's pregnancy discrimination stories.
A difficult part of Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren’s past has resurfaced lately, with commentators and outlets challenging the story she’s frequently told of being replaced at her job as a 22-year-old public school teacher in New Jersey because she was“By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days: wished me luck, showed me the door, and hired someone else for the job,” Warren said at a town hall in Oakland in June, a story...
Undaunted, Warren seized the opportunity to share stories from other people who have faced pregnancy discrimination more recently in a video released on Twitter on Wednesday. “I was fired the day after I [gave notice about] my pregnancy and was told it was because I ‘wasn’t likeable enough.’ I got a lawyer and a settlement,” read one tweet.
“When I got pregnant for the first time, I was excited and told everyone at work. A few weeks later, I got a surprise forcible lateral transfer to a less prominent department. I miscarried that week, and in the trauma, I didn’t make the connection,” read another.
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