Working women and the Lilly Ledbetter Act: a case study on misleading rhetoric of equal pay
type: CreativeWork
description: 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.
abstract: 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.
author: DeBoer, Celia A
keywords: neoliberalism, intersectionality, Lilly Ledbetter, equal pay, women and work
date published: 2014-06-01T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:03:52Z
provider: DePaul University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: DePaul University