Wage Disparity Between Men and Women: Title VII and Lilly Ledbetter, Why the Court Was Wrong, and the Ramifications

Abstract

This article contends that discrimination and the timely fling requirement begin again at each discriminatory paycheck, and that the ruling in Ledbetter is adverse to the intentions of Title VII. Furthermore, Congress was justified in overruling the Supreme Court, and that by doing so, the legislature avoided the inevitable negative consequences that would have resulted from limiting an employee's ability to seek redress for proven discrimination. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]