.Ledbetter's discovery that she was actually making less than her male versions for doing the very same task at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama caused her lawsuit, which essentially stopped working when the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that she had filed her complaint far too late. The court controlled that workers need to submit suits within six months of first acquiring a discriminatory income-- in Ledbetter's instance, it was actually years prior to she learned about the disparity with an undisclosed letter.Two years later, former Head of state Barack Obama authorized right into regulation the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which provided employees the right to file a claim against within 180 times of receiving each discrimination income, certainly not only the 1st one." Lilly Ledbetter certainly never set out to become a pioneer or even a somebody. She only intended to be paid the same as a man for her effort," Obama stated in a statement Monday. "Lilly performed what numerous Americans before her have actually carried out: setting her attractions higher for herself and also even higher for her little ones and grandchildren.".