The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it’s March 26, a day later than it was in 2025.
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Lilly Ledbetter, the activist who inspired Fair Pay Act, dies at 86
Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, discovered she was receiving less pay than men who worked the same position. Her case led to a monumental law on pay equity.


