Sen. Elizabeth Warren defended her story that she was fired from her first teaching job in 1971, despite a 2007 interview and official records contradicting her claim.
“When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant—and the principal told me the job I’d already been promised for the next year would go to someone else,” the Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday on Twitter. “This was 1971, years before Congress outlawed pregnancy discrimination—but we know it still happens in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We can fight back by telling our stories. I tell mine on the campaign trail, and I hope to hear yours.”
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