Lilly Ledbetter, a women's equality activist whose fight for pay equity led to passage of the monumental Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, died Saturday. She was 86. Ledbetter's death was ...

Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender pay equity legal fight was the inspiration for the Fair Pay Act of 2009, has died at age 86. Ledbetter died of respiratory failure, her family said in a statement Sunday.

Lilly Ledbetter, a manager at a Goodyear tire plant who, after discovering that she was earning far less than the men in her position, spent years battling for equal pay for women, filing a ...

Lilly Ledbetter, a champion of women getting paid the same as men for doing the same work, died Saturday night, her family said in a statement. She was 86. AL.com was first to report that she had ...

NEW YORK — Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation ...

GADSDEN, Ala. — Lilly Ledbetter, a women's equality activist whose sex discrimination lawsuit against her employer culminated in a major equal wage legislation bearing her name, has died.

Seven months after the death of Lilly Ledbetter, for whom Congress’s Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is named after, a film about her life opens in theaters May 9. In the biopic Lilly, Patricia ...

If you don't know the name Lilly Ledbetter, how's this for an introduction? "Lilly Ledbetter did not set out to be a trailblazer or a household name," said President Obama in 2009. "She was a good ...

Patricia Clarkson on Playing Her Icon Lilly Ledbetter and the Political Moment Greeting the Movie NEW YORK (AP) — The film “Lilly,” a biopic about the equal pay icon Lilly Ledbetter ...

Lilly Ledbetter, an former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86.