Pregnancy Discrimination and the American Worker

Michelle D. Deardorff is Professor and Department Head of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. She has coauthored a two-volume constitutional law set, Constitutional Law in Contemporary America (2010), and is on the author team of American Democracy Now, fourth edition (2012). James G. Dahl is Associate Dean in the Office of Undergraduate Affairs, College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He had previously spent 22 years at Millikin University, USA; where he served on the faculty in various administrative roles and Dean of the Tabor School of Business.

1. Introduction
2. A History of Pregnancy and the Workplace
3. Competing Definitions of Equality: Formal and Substantive Equality
4. Litigating Pregnancy Discrimination in the Federal Courts
5. Identifying Illicit Pregnancy Discrimination Under the PDA
6. Pregnancy as a Disability? The American Disabilities Act and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
7. Beyond Pregnancy—Title VII and the Protection of Related Medical Conditions of Pregnancy
8. Lessons Learned and Emerging Issues