In 2007, five men on the Supreme Court told Lilly Ledbetter that she was out of luck. Ledbetter, after two decades working as the only female supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, had sued her employer for wage discrimination–she had discovered that for all those years she had been paid less than male […]
Lilly Ledbetter
Deck the Hall With Awesome Women
So maybe the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y., doesn’t have red-carpet glitz or high-tech razzle-dazzle. But every other year, this home-grown organization brings hundreds of people to the little upstate New York village that was once home base for 19th century reformers and is now a bedroom community for nearby Syracuse […]
Don’t Ms.: Fake Clinics, Lilly Ledbetter, Women’s History Month and More!
Everywhere: This is the last week of Women’s History Month! If you haven’t already, take a look at David Dismore’s fascinating day-by-day women’s history coverage on the Ms. Blog. And there are still lots of ways to celebrate Women’s History Month before it ends. For one thing, this week is the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National […]