Labor/Employment,
Civil Rights
Feb. 26, 2009
Ladies' Fight
The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is a good step forward, but a more noble solution involves implementing a social structure that eliminates the need for such lawsuits altogether.
Konrad Moore
Public Defender, Kern County Public Defender's Office
The first days of President Obama's administration included the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, legislation that protects the right of victims of wage discrimination, principally females, who only belatedly discover the discriminatory conduct.
The act improves the remedy, but does little to solve the underlying issue that continues to leave women in the workforce in positions aptly dubbed gender challenged.
Apart from wage discrimination, equally insidious...
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