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Lilly Ledbetter: The Woman Who Fought the Pay Gap

Lilly Ledbetter: The Woman Who Fought the Pay Gap

Update: 2024-10-17

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Lilly Ledbetter, equal pay trailblazer, died on Saturday. WSJ’s Joseph De Avila reports on how Ledbetter faced pay discrimination at her job and sued her employer, taking her case all the way to the Supreme Court. And WSJ’s Lauren Weber discusses the persistence of the gender pay gap.

Further Reading:

-Fair-Wage Advocate Lilly Ledbetter Dies at 86

-Data Show Gender Pay Gap Opens Early

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-What Corporate America Can Learn From Coke’s Reckoning With Race

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Lilly Ledbetter: The Woman Who Fought the Pay Gap

Lilly Ledbetter: The Woman Who Fought the Pay Gap

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