Roundup: Service animals and ADA; Women at work; RTO and disparate impact; Pregnancy discrimination; Benefits and embryos

I don't expect to see miniature horses at many work places any time soon. It's not like they can quietly nap under the desk. But I love this article's approach to analyzing the ADA and how to effectively evaluate possible accommodations.

We can do better supporting women, parents, and people by making work a part of our lives instead of our lives. The real problem is bigger than simply inclusion or empowerment of women. It also has to do with politics, power, and gender roles in our culture.

I believe, and the research supports, that companies that address the issues that women face at work and in our lives will be the most successful.

Before you start requiring people to return to office, check to see who will be affected by the policy. And if you are thinking about terminating employees who won't come back, you really need to know who will be affected.

If men got pregnant, it would be a very different world. Then the women leaders could speculate about whether he would come back after the birth and how many other kids he wanted.

The question of when legal rights should attach to a fertilized egg is complicated. And how it gets answered can affect tax, payroll, benefits, and other HR issues. Here's the legal context for the question and more about the Alabama Supreme Court's recent decision on IVF.