Libro Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond De Lilly Ledbetter; Lanier Scott Isom

portada Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Three Rivers Press

Autor

Lilly Ledbetter; Lanier Scott Isom

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0307887944

ISBN13

9780307887948

Categorías

Biografías
Estudios de genero de las mujeres

Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

Lilly Ledbetter; Lanier Scott Isom (Autor) · Three Rivers Press · Tapa Blanda

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The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nationLilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than what she was born into: a house with no running water or electricity in the small town of Possum Trot, Alabama. In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory, she got the job. She was one of the first women hired at the management level. Nineteen years after her first day at Goodyear, Lilly received an anonymous note revealing that she was making thousands less per year than the men in her position. When she filed a sex-discrimination case against Goodyear, Lilly won--and then heartbreakingly lost on appeal. Over the next eight years, her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she lost again. But Lilly continuted to fight, becoming the namesake of President Barack Obama's first official piece of legislation. Both a deeply inspiring memoir and a powerful call to arms, Grace and Grit is the story of a true American icon.