Lilly Ledbetter finally received justice of sorts today when President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act this morning. For those of you that don't know Lilly's story, she worked for years in a Goodyear tire plant as a supervisor only to learn late in her career even men with the same position as she that were relative newcomers were making more money than she was. She sued, but the Supreme Court ruled against her.
While the bill signed into law today that carries her name will not bring her justice, it is a victory for millions of other working women around the country. As a parent of a daughter and a husband to a working woman, I am personally grateful to this remarkable woman for the fight she carried all the way to the Supreme Court and ultimately to Congress.
To read more about Lilly's struggle to improve the lives of working women listen to the NPR story regarding the passage of the Fair Pay Act that bears her name.
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