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

Lily Ledbetter: Without Equal Pay, 'We Lose What Cannot be Measure by Dollars'

Lilly Ledbetter, Women's Equality Leader and Namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, talks about her struggle to earn equal pay as a woman for the same job done as a man, and how the first bill President Obama signed into law.