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Related: About this forumElizabeth Warren defends her story about losing a teaching job because of pregnancy
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren stuck to her story Tuesday about losing her first teaching job because of pregnancy amid new scrutiny of the narrative.
Recent reports have cast doubts on the story, which the senator from Massachusetts has highlighted on the campaign trail as a key part of her background. In a pair of tweets Tuesday, Warren one of the leading candidates aiming to challenge President Donald Trump for the White House next year stood by her account of how she lost the position.
"When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant and the principal told me the job I'd already been promised for the next year would go to someone else," wrote Warren, who is 70.
She continued: "This was 1971, years before Congress outlawed pregnancy discrimination but we know it still happens in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We can fight back by telling our stories. I tell mine on the campaign trail, and I hope to hear yours."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elizabeth-warren-defends-her-story-about-losing-a-teaching-job-because-of-pregnancy/ar-AAIsqdf?li=BBnb7Kz
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I was of child bearing age then too. I got married and called in by my boss the week I got back. He told me if I wanted babies that was fine, but I would not be pregnant and work for his company. I knew he meant it, he had fired women before for getting pregnant.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
shraby
(21,946 posts)if you were pregnant.
If you lost your job because of pregnancy, you couldn't even collect unemployment.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
LisaM
(27,811 posts)She said that she didn't get a different job that she'd been promised. (This is not on the OP, this is on how the article's written).
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)dems must be perfect and never exaggerate.
repukes can be sociopathic serial adulterers who lie pathologically and slander recklessly.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)you have a person and his lackeys in the cabinet and right wing congress basically committing treason....................taking apart the country and the world, and your fixation to take down a decent law abiding person is just fucking unfathomable...................
And this sexist trope to try and get a gotcha moment to justify this crap.......1971 was not nice to woman..................and the Washington Free Beacon , maybe the MSN.com site should fact check there fucking source, before posting this crap......................Washington Free Beacon................."mixed for factual and misleading false claims"........................in other words they print BS..............you know not true ........................
let me highlight there take on this source :
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-free-beacon/
"Overall, we rate the Washington Free Beacon Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to misleading and false claims."
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)ahead or tied with Biden... you can expect more of this sort of garbage to emerge from the media and the right wing attack dogs.
Such is the state of politics...
Some here expressed "concern" about Biden when Trump started the baseless bullshit about his son and Ukraine... I will not express any concern about Warren and her story... I'm sure she had that conversation with the principle, and the school probably never documented her departure that way.
I know that I've been told that I should quit a job despite stellar reviews because I conflicted with someone in the management chain above me... I wasn't fired, but the hand writing was on the wall.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-fired-pregnant.html?searchResultPosition=7
Nice to see people putting aside their ideological differences to fight a common enemy.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Reads like the school gave the job to a 'qualified' teacher?
Warren says she did not have "the education courses".
"I was married at nineteen and graduated from college after I'd married,
and my first year post-graduation I worked in a public school system with the children with disabilities.
I did that for a year, and then that summer I didn't have the education courses, so ...
I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education ...
so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Why didn't you post the whole quote from that part of her recollection?
When I was in elementary school, I remember lots of male teachers being short on teaching Certs. They kept their jobs and were usually allowed to take college courses during two summers to meet the Certs - they taught while gaining the Certs. I don't remember a single teacher that was in her twenties getting pregnant or having kids during my 1-12 years (did not have kindergarten then and certainly no pre-K).
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
boomer_wv
(673 posts)This attack is originating out of the Sanders camp. Warren is pulling a lot of support from him and they are going to start taking their shots.
I've never thought that it was likely that Sanders and Warren would team up. Sanders is going to carry this thing to the end regardless of how he's doing or what chances he has.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden