Equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter to speak at Lyndon State College
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 22, 2011 CONTACT: Keith Chamberlin Director of Communications and Marketing 802 626-6459 (work) 802 751-9122 (cell) Keith.Chamberlin@LyndonState.edu LYNDON CENTER, VT: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was the first bill signed into law by President Barak Obama. The law’s namesake will share her story at Lyndon State College on Thursday, March [...]
Markowitz: Equal payday still a long way off for women
The long fight for pay equity is not just a women’s issue. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research found the average family would gain nearly $6,000 per year from wage equity.
Lilly Ledbetter: ‘Just treat me fair’
Activist says women can’t support their families because of pay discrimination in the workplace Former Goodyear Tire plant manager details her nine-year struggle to bring her case to the U.S. Supreme Court With her thick Alabaman drawl, Lilly Ledbetter roused a crowd of several hundred people at Vermont Technical College in Randolph with stories from [...]
