Starts haltingly, but builds to a detailed and fascinating memoir by a fairly ordinary woman who excels in tenacity. Because of Lily Leadbetter, other women have the continuing opportunity to fight employers who pay them less. More importantly, legislation forcing equal pay for equal work has a real chance at passage. It's easy to forgive any faults with this book when realizing Ms Leadbetter's importance to all women in the United States. ( )

A compelling story and a must read. Equal pay for equal work is a fundamental principle. We can be thankful that people like Lily Ledbetter are willing to stand up and speak up when things aren't fair and when things aren't right. And when they do that, we must stand with them and speak up as well. We all deserve the same rights, the same chances, and the same freedom to pursue our dreams. ( )

If the Supreme Court had not included this case on the short list of cases it hears, if Ginsberg had not been on the court and made public her objection to the verdict against Ledbetter, and perhaps if Obama had not learned of her case when he was still in the Senate this important woman would probably not have come to media attention and in asense had another career after Goodyear, advocating for women in the workplace. This is a simjple book telling of a marriage from age 17 to her husband's death after 53 years. It is an important contribution to wonen's literature. ( )

There's plenty in this book to make you mad - the author, Lilly Ledbetter, begins a career at Goodyear because she needs the money. She is bright, committed and hardworking and is saddled with a torrent of harassment. Some of it is overt sexual harassment and, just as often, it is being downgraded in her reviews as a manager or blamed for errors, just because she is female. When she discovers that she is paid almost 40% less than her male peers, she brings a discrimination suit that ends up in the Supreme Court. In a true stroke of idiocy, the Court opines that she should have brought suit when the discrimination first occurred, even though, in the real world, information about pay levels is confidential. As infuriating as her mistreatment at Goodyear is on a human level, if I were a shareholder, I would be furious as well. Time and time again, the good of the company is ignored by managers who are more interested in making her look bad than fostering efficiency. Mrs. Ledbetter wants to do her job well and help the company and is thwarted. It is Goodyear's loss. This book is a pleasure to read and Mrs. Ledbetter is a admirable character with a tenaciousness that borders on mule-like stubbornness. Beyond the issue of discrimination, the memoir recounts her difficult relationship with her mother and a warm and frank account of her marriage to Charles. ( )