Her suit charged Goodyear with gender-based pay discrimination, violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When Lilly Ledbetter, a longtime area manager at Goodyear, discovered that her salary over her then-18-year career was significantly lower than that of her male colleagues, she took the company to court with the help of her attorney, Jon Goldfarb. ( Clarissa Peterson, LCCR / Creative Commons CC BY-NC 2.0 license) Lilly Ledbetter at the Rally for Pay Equity on July 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C. Rachel Feldman, director of upcoming feature film ‘Lilly,’ a political thriller based on the remarkable life of fair pay icon Lilly Ledbetter. But Lilly continuted to fight, becoming the namesake of President Barack Obama's first official piece of legislation.īoth a deeply inspiring memoir and a powerful call to arms, Grace and Grit is the story of a true American icon.“If you’re a person, woman or otherwise, anywhere in the world, and you are being othered or beat down or minimized or excluded or cheated or harassed, you are a Lilly.” Over the next eight years, her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she lost again. When she filed a sex-discrimination case against Goodyear, Lilly won-and then heartbreakingly lost on appeal. Nineteen years after her first day at Goodyear, Lilly received an anonymous note revealing that she was making thousands less per year than the men in her position.
She was one of the first women hired at the management level.
In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory, she got the job.
Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than what she was born into: a house with no running water or electricity in the small town of Possum Trot, Alabama.
The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation
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