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Maternal profiling legal?

Categories: Money & Work, Mommy Wars, Media

I got an email from a woman named Cooper Munroe this morning, telling me about a law in Pennsylvania that allows employers to ask job applicants if they have kids or if they are married. Really? I didn't know employers were allowed to ask potential employees about anything except for their skills to perform the job. And, what job essential skill (or lack thereof) is developed from being married or having kids?

This question, of course opens the door to rejection based on steriotypes about having children and being married. It is Cooper's opinion that these types of questions are usually directed at women, and tend to hurt mothers, especially single ones. I tend to agree.

I wrote Cooper back, professing my ignorance of American law and asked, surely, this was an anomily in Pennsylvania only?

No, she replied, it's totally legal in 28 states. Wow. I had no idea.

Visit www.momrising.org if you are interested in signing a petition that would help pass a bill in Pennsylvania to stop hiring discrimination. It might set a new precedentl for 27 other states, as well.

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