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Ledbetter allows women to sue when they find out male coworkers doing the same job are paid more. We will never be able to force corporations to do what they should do unless we have the ability to take them to court for violating the law. 

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If you're going to tout it, at least know what it does.  The law already allowed anyone to sue over unequal pay on the basis of gender, race, national origin, religion, disability or age.  What Ledbetter Act did was, basically, extend the time someone could file a discrimination claim to 180 days from receiving the paycheck (previously the deadline was 180 days from when the employer decided to discriminate.  Because the problem in the Lily Ledbetter situation was the secrecy surrounding employee pay at the company she worked at, and by the time she learned that others in her same position were being paid more, the statute of limitations had run on filing.  

Nothing has changed about a company's continuing to keep that information secret.
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