Possom trot - Marrying Charles - Going to work - Becoming a rubber worker - Lighthearted, light-footed Lilly - Up to my knees in alligators - Holding the tiger by the tail - Protecting my good name - Ms.
Realizing the issue was bigger than she was, Lilly continued acting as a tireless advocate for equal pay, right up to the day she stood behind President Obama and watched him sign her namesake legislation" - Publisher's description Eight years later her case was heard before the Supreme Court, where, in a 5-4 vote, she lost on a technicality. She brought a sexual discrimination suit against the company and won, only to heartbreakingly lose on appeal. Angry, insulted, and hurt, Lilly took action. She did so until the day in 1998 when an anonymous note revealed that after devoting 19 years to Goodyear, Lilly was earning thousands of dollars per year less than men in her position.
Fondled on the factory floor, propositioned in evaluation meetings, transferred between departments when she complained, Lilly was disheartened but soldiered on, willing to deal with the daily indignities in order to provide for her family. Little did she know her dream would turn into a daily nightmare of sexual harassment. As a child, Lilly had been extremely jealous of a classmate whose father worked at Goodyear, because she had all the things-new clothes, vacations, a big house-that Lilly did not. When, after years of hard work and ambition, Lilly was hired for her dream job-a management position at the Goodyear Tire factory in Gadsden, Alabama-it was heady stuff. Depressed about the poverty her family was living in, and the death of her dreams of a bigger life, she went against her husband's wishes and got a job. "Married at seventeen, Lilly soon had two children.
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