Working women and the Lilly Ledbetter Act: a case study on misleading rhetoric of equal pay

<p>Since the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the wage gap in the United States has only decreased by eighteen cents; signaling that the battle over fair pay for women has gone on for too long. I argue that the neoliberal rhetoric around equal pay has to change to an intersectional approach where women can make legal claims based on many experiences of discrimination. I use the Lilly Ledbetter Paycheck Fairness Act as a case study to examine the history of equal pay in the United States and to provide recommendations on the future of equal pay.</p>

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Women & Gender Studies

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• DeBoer, Celia A

• neoliberalism
• intersectionality
• Lilly Ledbetter
• equal pay
• women and work

Repository record dc:identifier

https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/162

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:via.library.depaul.edu:etd-1167