39th Annual Luncheon
Thursday June 13th 2013 – Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Keynote by Lilly Ledbetter
Join more than 800 ERA supporters including attorneys, business leaders, & women’s rights advocates for this premiere event.
Sponsor or purchase a table or ticket for the luncheon now! And a big ‘Thank you!’ to our current sponsors, including lead platinum sponsor Wells Fargo.
Contact Lemlem Rijio for more information
E-Mail: lrijio@equalrights.org
Phone: 415-575-23881:15 am -
Lilly Ledbetter (center), with ERA’s Jamie Dolkas (left) and Noreen Farrell
For 10 years, Lilly Ledbetter fought to close the gap between women’s and men’s wages, sparring with the Supreme Court, lobbying Capitol Hill in a historic discrimination case against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Ledbetter won a jury verdict of more than $3 million after having filed a gender pay discrimination suit in federal court, but the U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the lower court’s ruling. Despite her defeat Ledbetter continued her fight until the Supreme Court decision was nullified when President Obama, on January 29, 2009, signed into law the first new law of his administration: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Ledbetter will never receive restitution from Goodyear, but she said, “I’ll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.”
For sponsorship and ticket information, please visit:
www.events.equalrights.org or call 415-575-2388
Website Launch Happy Hour
A new look for decades of groundbreaking work!
Join us at The Press Club in San Francisco on May 23 at 6pm for a celebration of ERA’s new website and logo. We’re especially thankful to the Levi Strauss Foundation’s generous support of the event, and will be toasting them and the designers at Start Somewhere. You could win a tote bag or t-shirt with our new logo in our raffle. We hope to see you there!
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