Some of the issues seem easy — making sure rehearsal breaks are long enough for nursing mothers to breast-feed or pump, for example — but women are sometimes reluctant to ask for accommodation.
First, despite a number of relevant precedents, the court has placed the burden on an applicant to proactively ask for accommodation for her or his religious beliefs.
If you can access Twitter, (or any social media site) it can be one very fast and useful way to send out a message that you're okay, to ask people to contact family members for you, to ask for accommodation or other help, etc. Stay out of and away from damaged buildings.
In the worst-case scenario, employers could be responsible for much higher medical costs if their workers were afraid to ask for accommodations and instead continued doing work that endangered their pregnancies.
We encourage students to ask for accommodations as they see fit and to start conversations with the writing consultants and fellows they meet about the best way to support their progress in writing.
Part of the problem may be that most women (and men) don't feel as if they have enough leverage to ask for accommodations, says Anne Ladky, the executive director of Women Employed, an advocacy group for low-income women in Chicago.
In both of these scenarios, increasing workplace accommodations (either by encouraging workers to ask for accommodations, encouraging employers provide accommodations, or providing accommodations directly to workers through programs such as VR) would increase employment for people with disabilities.
However, in this framework, workers who need but do not ask for accommodations or those whose employers do not comply with their request will not receive accommodations and likely leave their job due to the workplace no being accessible.
One woman told me she knows there are plenty of resources (workers with learning disabilities can, by law, ask for accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act), but she fears leadership won't understand the difference in how she works, thinks and processes information, so she keeps it to herself and does the best she can, which is pretty darn good.
You have the right to ask for accommodations, stim in public, and do what you need to do in order to function.
