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My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Crown Archetype
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 0307887928
EAN: 9780307887924
Kindle: B00540NVQQ
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Non-Fiction
The courageous 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.
Lilly Ledbetter was
born in a house with no running water or electricity in the
small town of Possum Trot, Alabama. She knew that she was
destined for something more, and in 1979, Lilly applied for
her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory. Even though the
only women she’d seen there were secretaries in the front
offices where she’d submitted her application, she got the
job—one of the first women hired at the management level.
Though she faced daily discrimination and
sexual harassment, Lilly pressed onward, believing that
eventually things would change. Until, nineteen years later,
Lilly received an anonymous note revealing that she was
making thousands less per year than the men in her
position. Devastated, she filed a sex discrimination
case against Goodyear, which she won—and then
heartbreakingly lost on appeal. Over the next eight years,
her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she
lost again: the court ruled that she should have filed suit
within 180 days of her first unequal paycheck--despite the
fact that she had no way of knowing that she was being paid
unfairly all those years. In a dramatic moment, Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, urging Lilly
to fight back.
And fight Lilly did, becoming
the namesake of President Barack Obama's first official
piece of legislation. Today, she is a tireless advocate for
change, traveling the country to urge women and minorities
to claim their civil rights. Both a deeply inspiring
memoir and a powerful call to arms, Grace and Grit is
the story of a true American icon.
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