2026 UPDATE: The legislation profiled below was not successful in 2025, however, a bill modeled on it has now been introduced in the California Legislature. Learn more about AB 1784 by visiting our factsheet. For questions about this legislation or the need for state law...
Supporting student parents world be an effective way for colleges to counter bans on affirmative action and DEI and promote diversity in higher education, writes our Director Jessica Lee for the Education Trust's Equity Line blog. ...
After nail-biting years of waiting, the new Title IX regulations are finally here! Today the U.S. Department of Education released its final regulations implementing Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. The Pregnant Scholar at UC Law SF’s Center for WorkLife...
Today is the 50th anniversary of Title IX being signed into law! While the landmark law prohibiting sex discrimination in education has long protected pregnant and parenting students, we know more protections are sorely needed to make Title IX’s promise of gender equity in education a...
New research from the Pregnant Scholar and a cross-institutional team revealed that amongst the top-rated medical schools only 14% of the schools reviewed had substantive, stand-alone parental leave policies, while the majority of schools had leave of absence policies without mention of parental leave. The...
The Pregnant Scholar is always looking for examples of what works in supporting pregnant and parenting students. Our users can submit examples of promising university policies or practices for inclusion in our directory and/or blog. [button size="medium" icon="" target="_self" text="Share Your Policy" link="https://thepregnantscholar.org/contactus/share-best-practice-example/"] One of the first university systems...
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Established by Congress in the peak years of the women’s rights movement, Title IX promised to overturn years of bias by banning sex discrimination
