The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was enacted in 2009 to provide additional protections for workers who believe they are being discriminatorily underpaid. Despite the changes the law made, the issue of gender pay equality has remained a persistent problem in the United States.
Join us today as we look at how the act came about and the current state of gender pay equity.
Guests:
- Lilly Ledbetter, civil rights advocate
- Julie Graber, CEO of GenderEQA
- Chandra Childers, senior research scientist at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research