To this day, significant bias against mothers and mothers-to-be persists. (Photo: Shutterstock)
(Bloomberg Opinion) –A core biographical element of Elizabeth Warren's stump speech — that in the 1970s she lost a job as a public school teacher when her pregnancy became apparent — came in for scrutiny this week after a conservative website, the Washington Free Beacon, went hunting through 1971 New Jersey school board records.
Never mind that the records don't contradict Warren's story, or that it took place years before the national Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, or that other teachers at her school told CBS that there was a "rule" that pregnant teachers had to leave once they started to show.
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