The dissent that became a statute (opens in new tab)

Near the end of her career, Lilly Ledbetter received an anonymous note: she was being paid far less than every man doing the same job\. Ledbetter was one of the first female supervisors at an Alabama Goodyear tire plant, working the 12-hour 7pm to 7am overnight shift for nearly 20 years\. A jury later determined that she had been subjected to sex-based discrimination and awarded Ledbetter more than $3 million for violations of the Civil Rights Act, but an appellate court overturned that rulin...