Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Goodyear Tires and Rubber Co. would be in favor of Goodyear. Goodyear appealed first to the 11th Circuit Court which ruled in favor of them stating that a discriminatory pay has to be reported within 180 days required by the Civil Rights Act. Due to the fact that Ledbetter’s claim had been made for more than 180 days, the ruling of the court was in favor of Goodyear. Therefore, this proved that its okay for a companies to pay a women less based on there gender if they don’t comply with the 180-day rule. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was later declared effective and signed by President Barack Obama on January 29, 2009. The act allows individuals subjected to pay discrimination to seek help and allow charges to be filed alleging wage discrimination. You would think that after this act it would help women in the work place but in actuality it hinders women still in our society. We are still surrounded by issues of fair pay between genders that still needs fighting for to be addressed because we are letting…

countless battles that take the shape of court cases, executive orders, and legislation. One branch of gender discrimination is the wage gap in the workplace. However, America’s countless attempts to prevent it all appear to be in vain. Through the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, and other significant pieces of legislation, it would seem that women may be paid equally for equal work sometime in the near future. Because of government negligence, however,…

After working for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for 19 years, Ledbetter finally found out she was being paid not nearly as much as her male workmates and produced to sue the tire company (Wolfe). At Goodyear, she was constantly a victim of sexual discrimination, and eventually ended up testifying before congress in 1998 about her EEOC complaint of sexual discrimination (Wolfe). After her complaint, her manager, the perpetrator of the abuse, was reassigned but her unfair treatment only got…

individual. One woman who has been paving the way for equal pay for women is Lilly Ledbetter. Ledbetter was one of the few female supervisors at the Goodyear plant in Gadsden, Alabama, and had worked there for almost two decades. At her job, she faced countless acts of sexual harassment, discrimination, and was told by her boss a woman should not be working there. Her co-workers bragged about their overtime pay, but Goodyear did not allow its employees to discuss their pay, and Ledbetter did not…

Through time, people have come up with different ways to help improve technology and advance everyday life. People have used science to help create things that help people go faster, run more efficiently, and overall work better. One of these technology advancements was cars, but more specifically race cars. Race cars are now able to accelerate quicker, have better materials for racing, but are even safe than before. This is because of many advances in technology, tires, and materials used. …

Lilly Ledbetter a woman who was subjected to unfair pay wages and sexual discrimination on a daily basis; Mrs. Ledbetter is a regular woman like any other woman in the work force. She was employed by Goodyear from 1979 through 1988 at a Gadsden, Alabama plant. In 1985 she was working as an area manager along with three male managers, her shifts were from 7:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M., while she worked for the company, she was given low ratings. Although, she did receive a Top Performance Award in 1996,…

Robert E. Mercer's account of the hostile takeover of Good Year Tire and Rubber Company focuses mainly on a struggle between the powerful and the powerless. According to the Interviewee, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is portrayed as an underdog in several incidents against certain established practices; stock manipulation and unfounded legal claims by law firms who accused Goodyear for, depriving their “shareholder of the highest price he can get,” along with abuse by well by share…

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legislation to this right. If they want more money, it would seem, sisters are going to have to fight for it themselves”, meaning that us as women are on our own because the government wouldn’t help us (Kenny Ursula). But why should women have to fight for a law to be enforced? That’s technically not our job but the governments job. This is just another example of discrimination because the government knows that we as women aren’t going to be able to do this ourselves. But if we would report…