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Lilly Ledbetter, Advocate for Equal Pay and Icon in the Fight Against Wage Discrimination, Dies at 86

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Lilly Ledbetter, an icon for equal pay, passed away at the age of 86 due to respiratory failure. She was the face of a landmark lawsuit against her employer, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court's 2007 ruling that her complaint was filed too late. However, two years later, the Fair Pay Act was signed into law by former President Barack Obama in 2009, partly as a result of the lawsuit's inspiration.

  1. US
    Barack Obama
    Democratic Party
    1. Lilly did what so many Americans before her have done: setting her sights high for herself and even higher for her children and grandchildren.
    2. Lilly Ledbetter never set out to be a trailblazer or a household name. She just wanted to be paid the same as a man for her hard work.
  2. US
    Lilly Ledbetter
    1. I was shortchanged, but this fight became bigger than Lilly Ledbetter. Today it's about my daughter. It's about my granddaughter. It's about women and men. It's about families. It's about equality and justice.
    2. Sexual harassment isn't about sex, just like pay discrimination isn't just about pay. Both are about power. They are clear evidence that too many workplaces value women less.
  3. US
    Emily Martin
    National Women's Law Center
    1. We know her name because she lost, and she lost big, and she kept coming back from it and kept working until the day she died to change that loss into real gains for women across the country.
    2. She was always ready to lend her voice, to show up to do a video, to write an op-ed. She was always ready to go.

sources

  1. 1.The Guardian
  2. 2.CTV News
  3. 3.The Times of India
  4. 4.Ms Magazine
  5. 5.New York Times
  6. 6.Times

perspectives

  1. 1.Obituary
  2. 2.Women's Rights

countries

  1. 1.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Alcom
  2. 2.Equal Pay Today
  3. 3.White HouseUS
  4. 4.Census Bureau
  5. 5.Democratic PartyUS
  6. 6.Goodyear Tire & Rubber
  7. 7.National Women's Law Center
  8. 8.Republican Party
  9. 9.US Bureau of Labor Statistics

persons

  1. 1.Lilly LedbetterUS
  2. 2.Barack ObamaUS
  3. 3.Patricia Clarkson
  4. 4.Robert De NiroUS
  5. 5.Deborah Vagins
  6. 6.Emily MartinUS
  7. 7.George W BushUS
  8. 8.Joe BidenUS

technicals

  1. 1.Hamptons International Film Festival
  2. 2.LILLY
  3. 3.Future Is Female
  4. 4.Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Lilly Ledbetter, Advocate for Equal Pay and Icon in the Fight Against Wage Discrimination, Dies at 86