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Title: Case Seeking Job Protections for Pregnant Women Heads to Supreme Court *Author:* Adam Liptak

*Source: * NY TIMES

*Date:* Dec 1, 2014

*Summary**:* The Supreme Court’s decision has the potential to affect the lives of millions of women, who make up 47 percent of the labor force and often work during and late into their pregnancies http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-128.pdf. According to the Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/demo/p20-575.pdf an estimated 62 percent of women who had given birth in the previous year were in the labor force.

*Link: *http://nyti.ms/1z8Fvkw

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