Feminism through culture, policy and law.

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Feminism through culture, policy and law.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 7/6/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 7/6/26

Women at work: accommodations for pregnant women

Under the PWFA, any covered employee or applicant may simply request reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition without needing to identify a similarly situated employee who received an accommodation in order to obtain one of their own.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/29/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/29/26

Women at work: Penalized for being pregnant

Firing someone because they’re pregnant is sex discrimination. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) was signed into law on October 31, 1978.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/22/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/22/26

Women at work: Equal and fair pay

Most people treat equal pay and fair pay as interchangeable. They are not the same thing. Equal pay describes what the law requires, which is identical wages for substantially identical work performed by a man and a woman in the same workplace.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/15/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/15/26

Women at work: The Crown Act and black women's hair at work

The Crown stands for Creates, a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.

Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/7/26 Ashleigh Mazivisa 6/7/26

Women at work: navigating discrimination

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991

Society has always had something to say about women. Here, we say something back.

Said Differently is an analysis of feminism through law, policy, and culture, written for everyone who deserves to understand it. Because the frameworks exist to describe what women experience with precision and weight. They just aren’t widely known. That’s what this is for.

I created Said Differently because language matters. The words we use to describe what happens to women shape whether those experiences are taken seriously, redressed, or erased entirely. Imprecise language obscures harm. The right language makes it undeniable.

I’m a student at Harvard University and Dartmouth, and I’ve spent most of my life moving between continents, cultures, and contexts. This means I’ve spent most of my life watching the same things happen to women, seeing them described differently depending on where you are, and dismissed regardless. That experience is what brought me to feminist theory, and what keeps me here.

Author: Ashleigh Mazivisa