davis and yale law school. i was a student in profess segal s constitutional law class, thank you for being here. professor segal let me begin with you. people will say i thought pregnancy discrimination at work was illegal already, why isn t the current act enough? first of all, thanks for having us on. i think that it s important that we manage to pass the pregnancy discrimination act in 1978 and it s done important work in beginning to shift norms, but the way that courts have interpreted it, both the act is understood to essentially provide same treatment and nothing more. and oftentimes it s the case that employees have difficulty coming up with evidence that there s a comparison, someone similarly situated with an ability to work.