Pregnancy and parenting is a huge step in any employee’s life. EOO is here to help you prepare, whether you’re looking for lactation room locations, managing your leave of absence, finding resources—including childcare—at the Family Resource Center, and more.
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Your Rights as a Pregnant Person
Boston University is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for community members affected by pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy-related conditions.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities including academic, educational, extracurricular, athletic, and other programs or activities of schools. This amendment requires that educational institutions:
- cannot discipline or harass a student or employee because they are pregnant, have given birth, or have had a miscarriage or abortion.
- must allow leave for pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage and/or abortion for students as long as their physician says is medically necessary, and to employees for a reasonable period of time.
- must provide accommodations to students with health needs related to pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage and/or abortion to ensure they have an equal access to education. This includes providing accommodations, leave, and other benefits to at least the same extent as they are provided to students with disabilities.
- cannot discriminate on the basis of sex, which includes adverse treatment based on stereotypes about how people of a certain sex should act.