Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

Activism

On August 26 2008 (Women's Equality Day) Lilly Ledbetter spoke at the Democratic National Convention on the topic of pay equity. TV Appearances
On October 31 2012 Lilly Ledbetter appeared as a guest on the Colbert Report to promote her book "Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond. In 1968 Lilly Ledbetter passed the H&R Block tax preparation exam and became an associate with H&R Block.

She has since become a women's equality activist. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.