Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond (Hardcover) by Lilly Ledbetter, Lanier Scott Isom

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If the Supreme Court had not included this case on the short list of cases it hears, if Ginsberg had not been on the court and made public her objection to the verdict against Ledbetter, and perhaps if Obama had not learned of her case when he was still in the Senate this important woman would pr...

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Starts haltingly, but builds to a detailed and fascinating memoir by a fairly ordinary woman who excels in tenacity. Because of Lily Leadbetter, other women have the continuing opportunity to fight employers who pay them less. More importantly, legislation forcing equal pay for equal work has a r...

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There's plenty in this book to make you mad - the author, Lilly Ledbetter, begins a career at Goodyear because she needs the money. She is bright, committed and hardworking and is saddled with a torrent of harassment. Some of it is overt sexual harassment and, just as often, it is being downgrade...

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If the Supreme Court had not included this case on the short list of cases it hears, if Ginsberg had not been on the court and made public her objection to the verdict against Ledbetter, and perhaps if Obama had not learned of her case when he was still in the Senate this important woman would pr...

from abycats

Starts haltingly, but builds to a detailed and fascinating memoir by a fairly ordinary woman who excels in tenacity. Because of Lily Leadbetter, other women have the continuing opportunity to fight employers who pay them less. More importantly, legislation forcing equal pay for equal work has a r...