AP: Lilly Ledbetter, an icon of the fight for equal pay, has died at 86
October 14. 2024
ERA National Campaigns Director and Director of the Equal Pay Today campaign Deborah J. Vagins is featured in an Associated Press article commemorating fair pay legend Lilly Ledbetter.
“She lost her case and she never saw a dime but she was a tireless advocate for all of us,” said Deborah Vagins, director of Equal Pay Today and the national campaign director of Equal Rights Advocates.
“Every now then, once in a generation, you meet these people who sacrifice everything for something even if it never benefits them,” added Vagins, who met Ledbetter and introduced her to then Sen.-Obama soon after the Supreme Court ruling galvanized the movement for what would become the Ledbetter Act.
“She sparked a movement and changed the face of pay equity forever,” she said.
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