Lilly Ledbetter
Lilly Ledbetter
Lilly Ledbetter was the plaintiff in the American employment discrimination case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. She has since become a women's equality activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
complaint court less months nearly pay six supreme though
The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.
money
In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.
jobs badass islands
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.
women dirty matter
There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.
retirement fighting equal-pay
We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.
differences lasts made
I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.