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Gillian Thomas

Senior Attorney at
American Civil Liberties Union

  • American Civil Liberties Union

Biography

Gillian Thomas is a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, where she specializes in equal employment opportunity litigation and policy. She previously was a Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s New York District Office and a Senior Staff Attorney with Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, as well as an Associate with Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C. in New York.

Gillian has nearly two decades of experience litigating pregnancy discrimination claims, and writes and speaks often on the subject. Her written work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and CNN.com, among other outlets. She is the author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work (St. Martin’s Press, 2016).
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Articles & Publications

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    Making Sure Pregnancy Works: Accommodation Claims After Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

    August 01, 2020

    An overview of the district and appellate court caselaw applying the Supreme Court's ruling in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc. regarding "accommodation" of pregnancy under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.

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Education

  • Yale College

    B.A.

  • University of Michigan Law School

    J.D.

2 Courses taught by Gillian Thomas

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