Feb. 5, 2008
Wage War
Forum Column - By Charlotte Fishman - Congress has the opportunity to undo the damage to women's rights created by a Supreme Court ruling on wage discrimination.
Charlotte Fishman
Pick Up the PaceEmail: cfishman@sbcglobal.net
Charlotte is a member of the executive board of the National Employment Lawyers Association and a frequent contributor to CLE programs on hidden bias in the workplace.
FORUM COLUMN
In 1979 Lily Ledbetter became a manager at Goodyear Tire Company's Gadsden, Ala. plant. She was so excited that her family held a party, complete with a balloon in the shape of a Goodyear Blimp. For the next 19 years she played by the rules, undeterred by sexual propositions or openly expressed gender hostility, willing to take on any job. She considered herself a success.
That changed in 1998, when she learned from an ano...
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