Lilly Ledbetter, an equal pay and women's rights activist whose legal fight against Goodyear Tires led to the Fair Pay Act, died.
Women’s equality activist Lilly Ledbetter at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 30, 2019, where advocates and House Democrats held a news conference to introduce the Paycheck Fairness Act
“Me and those three men that was listed on that note—we four had the exact same job, and I was making about 35 to 40 percent, at that time, less than they were,”The result was a 10-year legal battle, taking her all the way to the Supreme Court in the landmark case , Ledbetter’s case was overturned by a 5-4 vote, and she was denied compensation based on a technicality in Title VII that restricted claims of discrimination to a 180-day period.
We continue to call on Congress and the Biden-Harris administration for smart policy solutions that would help working families. In Congress, one of the next steps in reaching pay equity is the—a bill that would amend the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to give workers stronger enforcement tools and remedies to help close the pay gap between men and women once and for all. But things have been frustratingly stagnant in Congress.
Our work then was an outgrowth of Lilly’s experience and the solutions needed to stop pay discrimination. Goodyear was a government contractor—taxpayer dollars subsidized their policies—and employees were not allowed to discuss their salaries. That is one of the reasons it took so long to discover the discrimination that was happening.
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