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Stop Workforce Discrimination Against Single Mothers

A growing body of research, including recent studies published in the American Journal of Sociology (Correll, et al., 2007), and in Current Research in Social Psychology (Fuegen, et al., 2010), demonstrates that mothers, including single mothers, face discrimination and negative stereotyping in seeking employment.

Currently, employers are permitted to ask job applicants irrelevant questions about their marital status and about the ages and number of children living in their home and to make hiring and employment decisions based on that information even though such information has nothing to do with the applicant’s actual fitness or capability for the desired employment.  House Bill 2245 (HB 2245) would amend the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (1955) to prohibit discrimination in employment based on marital or familial status.

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