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Elizabeth Warren Defends Saying She Was Fired For Being Pregnant, As More Women Speak Out About Pregnancy Discrimination
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a Town Hall at Keene State College on Sept. 25, 2019 in Keene, New Hampshire.
Scott Eisen/Getty Images
BY
KATIE REILLY
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren is defending her account of being asked to leave her job as a public school teacher because she was “visibly pregnant,” dismissing recent scrutiny over the story.
“When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant — and the principal told me the job I’d already been promised for the next year would go to someone else,” Warren tweeted on Tuesday, repeating the story she often tells
on the presidential campaign trail about her experience as a speech pathologist at Riverdale Elementary School in New Jersey.
“This was 1971, years before Congress outlawed pregnancy discrimination—but we know it still happens in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We can fight back by telling our stories,” Warren tweeted. “I tell mine on the campaign trail, and I hope to hear yours.”
Some questions surfaced about the story this week after the right-leaning
Washington Free Beacon published minutes from an April 21, 1971 meeting of the Riverdale Board of Education, showing the board voted to extend Warren’s contract for a second year. Minutes from another meeting on June 16, 1971 show the board voted on Warren’s resignation, which was “accepted with regret.” (The documents cited by the
Free Beacon offer no context on the “resignation.”)
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She gave birth to her daughter in September.
“I was six months pregnant, it was my first job, I was 22 years old, and the job that was mine — that I’d been hired for for the next year — was taken away when they knew I was pregnant,” Warren
told CBS News this week. “It was my job, and in April, they’d said, ‘You’re doing a great job, come back next year.’ And when they found out I was pregnant, they changed that.” A former teacher, who was working at Riverdale Elementary at the time Warren left her position, told CBS News there was a “rule” that women more than five months pregnant “had to leave” their jobs.
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Elizabeth Warren Defends Saying She Was Fired For Being Pregnant, As More Women Speak Out About Pregnancy Discrimination
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a Town Hall at Keene State College on Sept. 25, 2019 in Keene, New Hampshire.
Scott Eisen/Getty Images
BY
KATIE REILLY
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren is defending her account of being asked to leave her job as a public school teacher because she was “visibly pregnant,” dismissing recent scrutiny over the story.
“When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant — and the principal told me the job I’d already been promised for the next year would go to someone else,” Warren tweeted on Tuesday, repeating the story she often tells
on the presidential campaign trail about her experience as a speech pathologist at Riverdale Elementary School in New Jersey.
“This was 1971, years before Congress outlawed pregnancy discrimination—but we know it still happens in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We can fight back by telling our stories,” Warren tweeted. “I tell mine on the campaign trail, and I hope to hear yours.”
Some questions surfaced about the story this week after the right-leaning
Washington Free Beacon published minutes from an April 21, 1971 meeting of the Riverdale Board of Education, showing the board voted to extend Warren’s contract for a second year. Minutes from another meeting on June 16, 1971 show the board voted on Warren’s resignation, which was “accepted with regret.” (The documents cited by the
Free Beacon offer no context on the “resignation.”)
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She gave birth to her daughter in September.
“I was six months pregnant, it was my first job, I was 22 years old, and the job that was mine — that I’d been hired for for the next year — was taken away when they knew I was pregnant,” Warren
told CBS News this week. “It was my job, and in April, they’d said, ‘You’re doing a great job, come back next year.’ And when they found out I was pregnant, they changed that.” A former teacher, who was working at Riverdale Elementary at the time Warren left her position, told CBS News there was a “rule” that women more than five months pregnant “had to leave” their jobs.
