The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 40: Current Interpretations, Trends & Predictions

ACLU Women’s Rights Project Senior Staff Attorney Gillian Thomas specializes in sex discrimination in employment and has litigated such cases for nearly 15 years, including at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and at Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund). Her book, Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work, was published in early 2016 by St. Martin’s Press. Ms. Thomas also speaks and writes frequently about employment discrimination. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and Slate.

Mariann Wang is an experienced trial lawyer and partner in the law firm of Cuti Hecker Wang LLP. Her practice focuses on civil rights litigation, including sexual and racial assaults and harassment, retaliation, childhood sexual abuse, employment and housing discrimination, labor law violations, police misconduct, First Amendment, prisoners' rights, and sexual orientation discrimination, and on general commercial litigation, including contract and tort disputes. She has served as both individual and class counsel for systemic allegations seeking both monetary damages and injunctive relief. Prior to founding Cuti Hecker Wang, Ms. Wang worked at the ACLU, a large New York City commercial firm, an international human rights law group in London, and was a partner at a small civil rights boutique.