. . . . But Warren
gave a different account in a 2007 interview, citing her lack of required education credits and decision to stay home and raise children as her reasons for leaving the career, with no mention of pregnancy discrimination. She even said she subsequently took some more education classes, and decided “I don’t think this is going to work out for me.”
She said she became “restless,” and when her old debate team friends suggested law school, she pursued that path. . . .
. . . Some of Warren’s defenders have surmised that she may not have felt comfortable discussing the subject in 2007, but feels comfortable doing so now, a premise that Warren herself reinforced in a
statement about the controversy, writing “After becoming a public figure I opened up more about different pieces in my life and this was one of them.”
But in a 2011 interview with Rutgers Law Professor
Paul Tractenberg , Warren was comfortable enough to open up about pregnancy discrimination by law firms, and yet recounted her exit from teaching without mentioning it at all. In fact, she corroborated details of her 2007 account, like the reason for her decision to go into law.
“I was married at 19 to a boy . . .
. . . Later in that same interview, Warren told Tractenberg “I graduated from law school 9 months pregnant . . . hard enough to get a job for a woman then, I was about to have a baby and nobody was interested in me. . . .
. . . . In neither interview did Warren describe teaching as a “dream job,” or express the slightest regret at leaving the career. And in her current retellings, she makes no mention of the emergency certificate she was teaching with, the required courses she had not completed, or . . .
. . . The 2011 interview seems to dispel the notion that Warren was uncomfortable discussing pregnancy discrimination, while the brief account she did offer of her departure from teaching is consistent with the story she told in 2007, and not the one she tells now.
Watch the full interview above, via Rutgers Newark.