I know, I know. I'm breaking my pattern. I try to post these on a weekly basis, and I just posted yesterday (please read both).
BUT COME ON! This is landmark!

"I will never see a cent. But with the president's signature today, I have an even richer reward." So commented the amazing Lily Ledbetter on the occasion of President Obama signing into law the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act!

Though women Gen Ys have been fortunate not to have experienced the inequities in pay to the degree that more mature women have experienced, this guarantees that every employee will be paid equally for the work they perform. This is a win for my mother and others in her generation. She spent a lifetime working for a major U.S. corporation. She wasn't paid on the basis of her performance, accomplishments, achievements, and considerable skill. Her boss's pay scale determined her pay and advancement. Her depth of knowledge consistently enhanced her bosses, and as they were promoted to another branch or left the company, she was obligated to adjust her salary to the new boss's pay grade, which meant she was often ineligible for increases. "He's a B-grade, and you're already at the top of the cap," she'd been told, and she just had to accept it.

Ledbetter did the exact job that her male counterparts did for 19 years and was paid less. Imagine the lost income and benefits over her lifetime! How did anyone justify that? Employers who stigmatize women because they're of child-bearing age or whatever now, if nothing else, will have to do a radical shift in their thinking before they treat a woman as "less than," at least when it comes to pay.

Lily Ledbetter...YOU ROCK!