Women's Law Center of Maryland

  • WLC Articles of Incorporation signed by early activists Susan Tannenbaum, Ann Hoffman, and Kathleen O’Ferral Friedman, establishing the Law Center as a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
  • Successfully represent female teachers before the Baltimore City School Board in Doerr & Douthrit v. Walton et al, arguing that the requirement for women to take maternity leave at the end of the fifth month of pregnancy was discriminatory.
  • Successfully represent a female social worker in her claim against the Maryland Department of Employment and Social Services that its rules on maternity leave were discriminatory.
  • Support successful legislation to change Maryland law so that a pregnant woman rendered unable to work by operation of law was then eligible for unemployment benefits.