Lilly Ledbetter, left, speaks with Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
I have no clue what my colleagues make. I suspect some earn more than I do and others take home less. Like most American workers, I consider my salary my own damn business. Turns out that could be a big mistakeĀat least in the opinion of a petite grandmother with an Alabama drawl.
When Lilly Ledbetter began working at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1979, she too knew nothing of her peers' paychecks. She was hired as a supervisor at its Birmingham, Ala., tire plant, doing all the work her male colleagues did. She says she hauled...
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