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Sumangala: Professor Granted Tenure After ERA Steps In To Help

April 5, 2013 | by

Professor Sumangala Bhattacharya, an accomplished professor of English and world literature at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, was denied tenure by the College despite her excellent...
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Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Renewed

March 13, 2013 | by

ERA continues to pursue equal pay and promotion claims on behalf of the women of Wal-Mart. After the U.S. Supreme Court moved to decertify a class of more than 1 million women workers at the retail...
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On Four-Year Anniversary of Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Equal Rights Advocates Urges Congress To Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act

January 29, 2013 | by

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 29, 2013 – On the fourth anniversary of passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Equal Rights Advocates, a national non-profit group with a long history of...
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ERA wins major victory for women who worked at AT&T

August 17, 2007 | by

San Francisco, CA, August 17, 2007 –Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of female employees of AT&T challenging the telephone giant’s use of a discriminatory policy to calculate...
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