Money

Show Us Our Money” proposes that employers show all their employees the salaries of all the workers. The reason this whole topic came about is because a lady named Lilly Ledbetter sued the company she worked for after learning (twenty years later) that she had been making less money than a man. Lilly was doing the very same job a man would do but still make less money. In 1998 after learning the exact salaries of her co-workers Lilly took her case all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court agreed with her but did not give her any reward. Since the end of that court case Lilly has been campaigning for the knowledge of workers’ salaries to be made-known. Currently women make 77 cents to every dollar. This does not seem right especially when they are performing the same jobs at work. Lilly Ledbetter has proposed a bill called the “Ledbetter Fair Pay Act” but it failed to gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.