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Now, Lilly’s life and her case are going to be the subject of Lilly, a feature film, directed by Rachel Feldman and starring Patricia Clarkson.

At the end of her dissent, Justice Ginsburg implored Congress to act: “The ball is in Congress’s court … to correct this Court’s parsimonious reading of Title VII.”įor her part, Lilly took to lobbying in the halls of Congress, her hard work finally paying off when President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 into law as his first official act.

However, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asserted in her famous dissenting opinion, holding Ledbetter’s case to the time limit was disingenuous-pay discrimination often happens incrementally over time and a company’s policy to hide salaries from its employees makes comparisons difficult. Much to the dismay of champions for gender equality and pay equity, Lilly’s case was overturned by a 5-4 vote, and she was denied compensation based on a technicality in Title VII that restricted claims of discrimination to a 180-day period. The result was a 10-year legal battle, taking her all the way to the Supreme Court in the landmark case Ledbetter v. Her suit charged Goodyear with gender-based pay discrimination, violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When Lilly Ledbetter, a longtime area manager at Goodyear, discovered that her salary over her then-18-year career was significantly lower than that of her male colleagues, she took the company to court with the help of her attorney, Jon Goldfarb. ( Clarissa Peterson, LCCR / Creative Commons CC BY-NC 2.0 license) Lilly Ledbetter at the Rally for Pay Equity on July 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C. Rachel Feldman, director of upcoming feature film ‘Lilly,’ a political thriller based on the remarkable life of fair pay icon Lilly Ledbetter. “If you’re a person, woman or otherwise, anywhere in the world, and you are being othered or beat down or minimized or excluded or cheated or harassed, you are a Lilly.”