Word: bonk
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...cases they face. Feminists are split over a 1978 California law allowing a pregnant worker to take up to four months of unpaid leave. The Justice Department has joined a Los Angeles bank in claiming that the statute runs afoul of federal laws barring discrimination based on pregnancy. Kathy Bonk of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which also opposes the state rule, argues, "When pregnant women are put in special categories, they are denied benefits and paid less." But Christine Littleton, who teaches law at UCLA, retorts, "Inadequate leave policy means that women who choose to become parents...
Jeanne M. Bonk Scotia...
...Women has its way, unisex insurance will be next. Feminist groups and several powerful Congressmen are pushing two separate bills in Congress to end the traditional practice of establishing insurance rates on the basis of gender, which often results in higher premiums or lower benefits for women. Says Kathy Bonk of the Legal Defense Fund: "We have to take the profit motive out of sexual discrimination...