Equal Pay For Equal Work Between Men And Women

In the United States where females contribute significantly and equally into the united states economy and workforce, by having the same knowledge and experiences in a specific position and working the same number of hours as American males, and yet they receive considerably less salary compared to what their male colleagues receive by doing the same job in the same position. If the two employees who work in the same company and do the same job in the same position, then what can be consider in the pay discrepancy between a male and female?. This was the centuries old problem that Lily Ledbetter unconsciously had faced during her nineteen years working at Goodyear Tire Company. She began to do something against this unfair treat towards female gender.

Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at Goodyear Tire Company for nineteen years, but she was getting considerably less salary in comparison to her male colleagues, after nineteen years when it was almost her retirement time she anonymously received a note that she was receiving very less amount of money in return for what she was working in that company in comparison to the same job as her male coworkers were receiving. After that she filed a lawsuit against the Goodyear Tire Company, this start was a good effort to correct a centuries old problem of gender-based wage discrimination.

The supreme Court decided that according to Title VII, discriminatory intent must occur during the 180-days charging period, which means she had taken action very late against this issue. But she argued that the discriminatory behavior has been occurred long before, but still affected her during the 180-days charging period. In 2007, several Democratic members of Congress proposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which revised the law to state that if a present act of discrimination pertains, prior acts outside of the 180-day statute of limitations for pay discrimination can be incorporated into the claim. In January 2009, Congress passed, and President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Wage Act which will help prevent salary discrimination. There is no quite relief to eliminate wage gap between gender and race .workers are required to take legal system to receive equal salary for equal work It is important to be able to use it reliably. Lilly Ledbetter The Fair Wage Act allows workers to do so and is entitled to sue in 180 days after the last violation, not 180 days after the initial salary gap.

Paycheck fairness act(2013) attempted to close the wage gap between men and women, and getting the same compensation with the same level of experience, same level of responsibility in jobs and also tried to give individuals who might be injured by discriminatory pay schemes to have the tools to fight back .The lily Ledbetter law was the first step and this was supposed to be the companion step, unfortunately, it faced failure to become a law.

On Wednesday, January twenty ninth, of 2020 is the eleventh anniversary of Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act, and yet Women are fighting for pay transparency and equal pay for equal work. They still receive 80 percent of what men are paid. Motherhood and a lack of workplace policies that support family caregiving are often the reasons that the pervasive wage gap is driven by it ,but still we have more than 40 percent unexplained gender inequal pay,meaning that there is unknown unmeasurable reason for a difference in pay.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is a federal statute that was signed into law by President Barack Obama in January 2009. to strengthen the protection of workers against wage discrimination. This bill allows individuals faced with discrimination against discrimination to seek relief under the federal anti - discrimination law. Under the law, discrimination based on age, religion, nationality, race, sex and disability is stated as 'cumulative' every time an employee receives a salary considered as discrimination. The bill was named after a lawsuit filed by alleging that the manufacturing director at Goodyear Tire Manufacturing Plant in Alabama proved that her salary reflects gender discrimination in 1998. Ledbetter's appeal was ultimately dismissed in the Supreme Court, but this ruling ignited extremist groups that believed that the court' s decision was a retreat of women and citizens' rights. This led to a bill named after Ledbetter.