Bio
Gillian joined the Women’s Rights Project in 2015 and specializes in equal employment opportunity. She previously was a Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s New York District Office and a Senior Staff Attorney with Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), where she specialized in litigating employment discrimination cases on behalf of women in male-dominated jobs like construction and law enforcement. She also has worked in private practice, including at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C. in New York.
After law school, Gillian clerked for the Hon. John T. Nixon of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. She is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a contributing editor of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. She is the author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work (St. Martin’s Press, 2016).
Featured work
![United States Department of Labor](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-unitedstatesdepartmentoflabor-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Mar 22, 2017
LGBT and Women Workers Deserve a Labor Secretary Who Is Committed to Their Well-Being
![Hollywood Sign](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog17-hollywoodsign-1160x768_1-400x266.jpg)
Feb 18, 2017
Women Directors Might Just Get the Hollywood Ending They Have Been Hoping For
![Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog16-anitahill-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 15, 2016
How the Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings Changed How America Talks About Sexual Harassment
![U.S. Women's Soccer team ticker tape parade in New York City](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog16-uswomensteam-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 1, 2016
After the Ticker Tape Parade, a Grim Reality for the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
![Telephone operators in 1952](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web16-blog-telephoneoperators-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Mar 9, 2016
This Women’s History Month, Celebrate Title VII for Banning Sex Discrimination in the Workplace
![Chief Justice Warren Burger Swears in Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-blog-burger-oconnor-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Dec 9, 2015
When a Chief Justice Declared That Women Make Better Secretaries