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Event: Lilly Ledbetter

  • February 16, 2013
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  • activism, civic engagement, create community, inspiration, nondiscrimination

Pikes Peak Women in conjunction with the Women’s Resource Agency proudly present Lilly Ledbetter on Monday, April 8, 2013 at UCCS.

LEDBETTER-Lilly2The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act | 2009
Author of “Grace and Grit”
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Lecture and book signing 7-8pm
UCCS – Gallogly Events Center
Free Parking

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For 10 years, Lilly Ledbetter fought to close the gap between women and men’s wages, sparring with the Supreme Court, lobbying Capitol Hill in a historic discrimination case against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

Ledbetter won a jury verdict of more than $3 million after having filed a gender pay discrimination suit in federal court, but the U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the lower court’s ruling. Despite her defeat Ledbetter continued her fight until the Supreme Court decision was nullified when President Obama, on January 29, 2009, signed into law the first new law of his administration: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

Ledbetter will never receive restitution from Goodyear, but she said, “I’ll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.”

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