Focus Story

Lillian Garland is one of the 55 million women in America juggling work while starting a family. Fortunately for these women, California Law grants pregnant women up to four months paid disability leave while securing their job.

Garland worked for Federal Savings & Loan. She is one of the many women granted pregnancy leave and given insurance that her job would be waiting upon her return – only instead of returning to work, she spent the next five years battling Federal California in court after they failed to uphold this law.

Garland's justice, which came after her child's fifth birthday, was served Tuesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-2 to uphold state law.