Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Why Lily Ledbetter Wasn’t Enough: The Facts About The Persistent Pay Gap

Why Lily Ledbetter Wasn’t Enough: The Facts About The Persistent Pay Gap: Four years ago today, President Obama signed his first bill into law: the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, meant to address the pay gap between men and women. Ledbetter famously worked years without knowing that she was being paid less than her male co-workers for doing similar work. The Supreme Court threw out a case [...]/p