Ledbetter started working for Goodyear Tire Co. in 1979; she had been working there for about twenty years and there was no job she could not do. In 1998 she received an anonymous tip saying that she was being paid much less than the male worker. She was being paid $44,700 a year while the male workers were getting paid twenty-five percent more (Reah, 2008). Goodyear prohibited its employees from discussing their pay. Ledbetter took the situation to court. The discrimination
involved in the government have stood up and tried to get the Paycheck Fairness Act approved which would reinforce the 1963 Equal Pay Act; this has been denied twice already. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act Lilly Ledbetter is a women from Alabama who in 1979 applied for her "dream job" as a manager at Goodyear Tire Factory, making her one of the only women hired for a management level position. She had to face many gender prejudice harassment throughout many years but it was not until 19 years
Research Paper: Lilly Ledbetter Act for women in the workplace Lilly Ledbetter Act is a law signed by congress on January 29,2009, that restored works protection on pay discrimination. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act allows individuals who face paying discrimination rectification under federal government of laws. It also helps women fight equal paying on discrimination on the paycheck of work. Presidential Obama passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act in 2014. After the Lilly Ledbetter Act passed, personally
Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fairpay Act, on January 29, 2009. It holds a historic honor of being the first law the president signed, while in office. This law, in simple terms, addressed unfair and unacceptable wage gaps. The Lilly Ledbetter Fairpay Act is a legislative correction to a May 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co (Mathis and Jackson, 2011). This decision restricted the ability of victims who experienced pay discrimination to sue and receive
Throughout the history of the world, discrimination has been a consistent problem in society. Whether the discrimination is race, gender, religion, beliefs, appearance or anything else, it happens everyday. A significant discrimination problem is the wage gap and it takes place in the workplace. This type of inequality has been around for centuries. Women still earn considerably less than men because of unqualified, inaccurate reasons such as women making up a small portion of the workforce, and
One of the most controversial topics in today's society is the issue of women in the labour force. More importantly, the issue of equality of men and women and the discrimination of women in the labour force. The lack of women and the discrimination of women in the labour force has been a decades long problem that women experience all over the world, and it is something people need to work towards changing. Thankfully, with changing societal values and moral values, the idea of not only females working
The United States of America is a capitalist patriarchy. According to Eitzen, Zinn, and Smith (2014) this is where “male supremacy keeps women in subordinate roles at work and in the home” (p. 216). There is not much evidence to debunk this fact. As it would go, there are many reasons how this came to be and why it persists today. This is not only an issue that affects America, but worldwide. However, as the world continues to improve, America as a country lacks when it comes to fixing the gender
Women are more than half the work force and are graduating at higher rates then men and continue to earn considerably less then men. There are several contributing factors to the gender wage gap. Women experience gender discrimination in the work force even though it’s been illegal since the Equal Pay Act in 1963. One of the challenges for women is uncovering discrimination. There is a lack of transparency in earnings because employees are either contractually prohibited or it’s strongly discouraged