Overview

Moms-to-be get tons of advice on strollers, sleep training, and post-baby workouts. What they don't get is straight talk about navigating the workplace during pregnancy and new parenthood - factors that put many women's jobs in jeopardy. That's why Babygate is essential: the first and only guide to supply parents with the tools they need to keep their jobs. Babygate breaks down the laws on topics across the parenthood spectrum in clear, conversational language, and includes a state-by-state guide so readers know exactly how they're protected (or not) in their hometowns. Best of all, Babygate includes a road map for confronting family-responsibilities discrimination, and a concrete plan for creating a more family-friendly nation. In Babygate, three legal experts share practical tips, real-life stories from moms and dads, and key legal information to spotlight the protections expecting and new parents have (and don't have) in the workplace. This step-by-step guide covers everything from morning sickness to maternity leave to confronting discrimination on the job. Includes quizzes, charts, checklists, sample letters to employers, and a comprehensive breakdown of individual state laws on pregnancy, parenthood, and the workplace.

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"""Any mother-to-be who buys What to Expect When You're Expecting should pick up a copy of Babygate. It offers indispensable advice to allow working parents to stay on the job and is a blueprint for change in the coming work–family revolution."" — Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All ""A Better Balance, one of the outstanding defenders of parents' legal rights in the United States, has given us an indispensable guide with Babygate. No new parent should leave the hospital without it!"" — Ann Crittenden, Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of The Price of Motherhood ""If you're a working parent, you need Babygate—an invaluable and humane guide for expecting and new parents about their legal and economic rights in the American workplace. The information in its pages will provide answers to your most important questions and empower you to stand up for yourself and working families."" — Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of the Nation “The book is the thing that has been missing from parenting libraries, a guide to rights and provisions for pregnant women and new parents, and includes a comprehensive guide to individual state laws and regulation around everything from caregiver discrimination, paid leave policy, and breastfeeding laws.” — Rebecca Traister for New Republic ""This handbook, compiled by three attorneys at A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center, takes readers step by step toward success in America’s often treacherous world of working motherhood. Offering flow charts on how and when to announce a pregnancy, examples of legally explicit doctor’s notes for workplace accommodations and state-by-state guides on maternal legal protection in the workplace, this is a critical resource for women contemplating a baby."" — Ms. Magazine ""Any mother-to-be who buys What to Expect When You're Expecting should pick up a copy of Babygate. It offers indispensable advice to allow working parents to stay on the job and is a blueprint for change in the coming work–family revolution."" — Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All ""A Better Balance, one of the outstanding defenders of parents' legal rights in the United States, has given us an indispensable guide with Babygate. No new parent should leave the hospital without it!"" — Ann Crittenden, Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of The Price of Motherhood ""If you're a working parent, you need Babygate—an invaluable and humane guide for expecting and new parents about their legal and economic rights in the American workplace. The information in its pages will provide answers to your most important questions and empower you to stand up for yourself and working families."" — Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of the Nation “The book is the thing that has been missing from parenting libraries, a guide to rights and provisions for pregnant women and new parents, and includes a comprehensive guide to individual state laws and regulation around everything from caregiver discrimination, paid leave policy, and breastfeeding laws.” — Rebecca Traister for New Republic ""This handbook, compiled by three attorneys at A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center, takes readers step by step toward success in America’s often treacherous world of working motherhood. Offering flow charts on how and when to announce a pregnancy, examples of legally explicit doctor’s notes for workplace accommodations and state-by-state guides on maternal legal protection in the workplace, this is a critical resource for women contemplating a baby."" — Ms. Magazine"

Any mother-to-be who buys What to Expect When You're Expecting should pick up a copy of Babygate . It offers indispensable advice to allow working parents to stay on the job and is a blueprint for change in the coming work-family revolution. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All A Better Balance, one of the outstanding defenders of parents' legal rights in the United States, has given us an indispensable guide with Babygate . No new parent should leave the hospital without it! -- Ann Crittenden, Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of The Price of Motherhood If you're a working parent, you need Babygate --an invaluable and humane guide for expecting and new parents about their legal and economic rights in the American workplace. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of the Nation The book is the thing that has been missing from parenting libraries, a guide to rights and provisions for pregnant women and new parents, and includes a comprehensive guide to individual state laws and regulation around everything from caregiver discrimination, paid leave policy, and breastfeeding laws. -- Rebecca Traister for New Republic

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"Dina Bakst, Phoebe Taubman, and Elizabeth Gedmark are attorneys for A Better Balance, a legal center created to advance the rights of pregnant women and caregivers in the American workplace. A Better Balance's legislative advocacy - paired with litigation, research, public education, and technical assistance to state and local advocates - has generated new protections for millions of workers across the country. Dina Bakst, co-president of A Better Balance, cofounded the organization to advance the legal rights of pregnant women and caregivers in the American workplace. Bakst's New York Times op-ed, ""Pregnant and Pushed Out of a Job,"" inspired the introduction of the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. A veteran attorney and advocate dedicated to women's rights and economic justice, Dina lives in New York City with her husband and three daughters. Phoebe Taubman is a senior staff attorney with A Better Balance, where she works to combat discrimination and advance family-friendly public policies at the local, state, and federal level. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son. Elizabeth Gedmark is an attorney with A Better Balance, and dedicates her time to empowering working families. Originally from Kentucky, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband."

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