Jamie Dolkas’ practice focuses on ensuring education equity for women and girls at school as part of ERA’s Education Equity campaign. Through education and outreach and litigation efforts, Jamie focuses on preventing gender-based bullying and harassment in schools and ensuring the equal access of female students to sports and other educational opportunities. Jamie spearheaded ERA’s Student Leadership Advisory Board, which promotes female students as leaders and partners in ERA’s Title IX work.
Jamie also advocates on behalf of tradeswomen as part of ERA’s Marginalized Women Workers campaign. This work includes her close oversight of federally-funded construction projects to prevent sex discrimination in hiring, treatment and promotion. Jamie also worked closely with Bay Area organizations to launch the Bay Area Equal Pay Collaborative and gives presentations across the state on equal pay issues to workers, students, and employers.
Jamie has written on various matters relevant to working women, including as co-author on Expecting A Baby, Not A Lay-Off: Why Federal Law Should Require the Reasonable Accommodation of Pregnant Workers (ERA May 2012) and as co-author on Family Responsibilities Discrimination: The Interplay of Title VII, FMLA, & ADA (NELA 2010) Jamie also contributed a chapter in the anthology entitled The Opt Out Revolution Revisited (UC Hastings Center for Worklife Law 2012) and her client was featured in a groundbreaking report published by the UC Hastings for Worklife Law called The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict- The Poor, the Professionals, and the Missing Middle (January 2010).
Prior to joining ERA, Jamie worked at the UC Hastings Center for Worklife Law where she researched discrimination against caregivers with a focus on work/family conflict among low- and middle-wage workers. Her work contributed to various publications and scholarly articles.
Jamie is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Hastings College of the Law.
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