Talk:Dina Bakst

Proposed edits April 2024

I'd like to propose some edits to this page. I welcome any input, edits or feedback on the best way to make the below changes to the page:

Would it be possible to add "and women's rights advocate" to the introductory sentence? This claim can be cited to this page.

In the third paragraph of the introduction, when the page discusses the Heinz award, could we lengthen the last sentence so that it says, in quotes, "...Bakst was awarded the Heinz Award for the Economy for A Better Balance's advocacy and policy work 'for their work to ensure no worker in the United States is forced to choose between having a baby or caring for a seriously ill loved one, and maintaining their economic security.'" This quote can be cited to this page.

In the first section of the "Pregnant Workers Fairness Act" subsection, could the page cite and quote this Jerry Nadler tweet crediting the subject's work on the legislation.

In this same section, could we cite pages 1143 and 1144 of this document to add the claim that "Under Bakst’s leadership, A Better Balance spent ten years assisting campaigns for state and local legal protections for pregnant workers across the country, supporting passage of the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in December 2022."

In this same section, could we add this paragraph (with citations linked throughout): "Bakst and her organization, A Better Balance, also represented pregnant workers denied accommodations who then became advocates for the law. (cite) A Better Balance also authored several reports (cite) and op-eds (cite here and here)making the case for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. For example, immediately after the Supreme Court decided a pregnancy discrimination case, Young v. UPS in 2015, Bakst published an op-ed in U.S. News & World Report, “Peggy Young’s Victory Is Not Enough.”(cite) She argued the decision was inadequate for low-wage pregnant workers in need of immediate help to stay healthy and on the job and “to ensure fairness and equal opportunity for all pregnant workers,” Congress needed to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Hillary Clinton shared Bakst’s Op-Ed on Twitter the next day, writing that 'Protecting pregnant women from discrimination shouldn’t be a fight, it should be as American as apple pie.' (cite)" 

Could we add this sentence after the paragraph beginning "Bakst presented witness testimony at a 2019...": “Long Overdue,” a 2019 report released by A Better Balance and co-authored by Bakst, which found that two-thirds of plaintiffs in post-Young pregnancy accommodation cases had lost, and was cited by policymakers to make the argument for the necessity of the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. (cite)

Could we add the below seven reports authored by the subject to the Reports section of the bibliography:

• Dina Bakst, Elizabeth Gedmark & Sarah Brafman, Long Overdue: It Is Time for the Federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (2019)
• Dina Bakst, Elizabeth Gedmark & Cara Suvall, Pointing Out: How Walmart Unlawfully Punishes Workers for Medical Absences (2017) 
• A Better Balance, Pregnant and Jobless: Thirty-Seven Years After Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Pregnant Women Still Choose Between A Paycheck and a Healthy Pregnancy (2015) 
• A Better Balance, The Pregnancy Penalty: How Motherhood Drives Inequality & Poverty in New York City (2014) 
• Dina Bakst, Sherry Leiwant & Janet Gornick, Promoting Work-Family Balance, Toward a 21st Century City for All: Progressive Policies for New York City in 2013 and Beyond 246 (Center for Urban Research & Brad Lander, eds. 2013) 
• Dina Bakst, Elizabeth Gedmark, Emily Martin & Liz Watson, It Shouldn’t Be A Heavy Lift: Fair Treatment for Pregnant Workers (2013) 
• A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center & The Barnard Center for Research on Women, The Work-Family Dilemma: A Better Balance (2007) 

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