Lilly Ledbetter, a stalwart in the fight for fair pay, dies at 86 After discovering she was paid much less than men in the same job, she sued her employer. The case reached the Supreme Court and ...

Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, discovered she was receiving less pay than men who worked the same position. Her case led to a monumental law on pay equity.

What Lilly Ledbetter endured Growing up in poverty gave Ledbetter the resilience necessary to endure a lengthy legal fight. She was born in 1938 in Alabama, when there were few career options for ...

Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender pay equity legal fight was the inspiration for the Fair Pay Act of 2009, has died at age 86.

Lilly Ledbetter, a champion of women getting paid the same as men for doing the same work, has died, her family said in a statement. She was 86.

The Oscar-nominated actress talks about playing the activist whose 1990s lawsuit demanding equal pay with her male colleagues went all the way to the Supreme Court, and how her own mother inspired ...

GADSDEN, Ala. — Lilly Ledbetter, a women's equality activist whose sex discrimination lawsuit against her employer culminated in a major equal wage legislation bearing her name, has died. She ...

Lilly Ledbetter dies at 86; one-time factory manager was pivotal in fight for equal pay Two years after Supreme Court ruling against her, in 2009 President Obama signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay ...

Lilly Ledbetter, the former Alabama factory manager whose discrimination lawsuit led to the passage of watershed Obama-era legislation, died Saturday. She was 86.

‘Lilly’ Review: Equal-Pay Activist and Trailblazer Lilly Ledbetter Deserves a Much Better Film Patricia Clarkson is forgettable in this tonally confusing narrative, full of intrusively edited ...

Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender pay equity legal fight was the inspiration for the Fair Pay Act of 2009, has died at age 86.

What to know about Lilly Ledbetter, the fair pay act namesake who inspired the movie Lilly.