Today, April 9, 2013, is National Equal Pay Day, created in 2006 to help raise awareness of the wage gap. The day reflects how far into the current year women must work to match what men earned in the previous year. Our own MAKER Lilly Ledbetter waged a personal battle for equal pay that led to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Act in 2009, a huge step in the right direction for equal gender pay! Read More
In honor of Women's History Month, we are celebrating with 31 days of women's history! Every day in March, we will highlight an historic moment, as told through the personal stories of our MAKERS. Today we highlight Lilly Ledbetter and her activism that led to the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009. Read More
As you might remember, fair pay was a question asked about recently by undecided voter Katherine Fenton in the presidential town hall-style debate. So the Twitter campaign #RU4FairPay was launched to raise awareness as election day approaches. Read More
She was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention and was mentioned during the Presidential debate last night, so who is Lilly Ledbetter and why is her story important to women? Read More
Recently, MAKERS has welcomed four new women to the community: Sara Hurwitz, Lisa Stone, Kay Bailey Hutchison & Lilly Ledbetter. Read More
