![]() ![]() Over the next eight years, her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she lost again. When she filed a sex-discrimination case against Goodyear, Lilly won-and then heartbreakingly lost on appeal. 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. ![]() She was one of the first women hired at the management level. In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory, she got the job. Lilly 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. 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 nation ![]()
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