The number of parent employees who are part-time caregivers for their children has increased, partially due to an expanded female workforce. Workplaces have not changed enough. In this country, pregnancy—and as we shall see later, being a parent at all—can be a professional hazard. Nanau recounted that the female workers for whom she prosecuted cases were not given chairs to sit in while they worked behind cash registers into their sixth month of pregnancy. The white-collar workers she represented were harassed in subtler ways: They were given more work than they could handle, offered
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