A winning memoir and a powerful call to arms, Grace and Gritis the story of a true American icon. I was afraid the major milestones of my life, marriage and childbirth, were past. But Lilly continued to fight, and became the namesake of Barack Obama's first official piece of legislation as president. Lilly Ledbetter Quotes (Author of Grace and Grit) 1 quote from Lilly Ledbetter: I sometimes worried Id never experience that sense of wonder you feel meeting a new friend or traveling to a new place for the first time. Over the next eight years, her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she lost again. When she filed a sex-discrimination case against Goodyear, Lilly won-and then heartbreakingly lost on appeal. Rent Grace and Grit 1st edition (978-0307887948) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Lilly Ledbetter. Nineteen years after her first day at Goodyear, Lilly received an anonymous note revealing that she was making thousands less per year than the men in her position. In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory, she got the job-one of the first women hired at the management level. The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act-her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than what she was born into-a house with no running water or electricity in the small town of Possum Trot, Alabama.
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