Gender Discrimination: Goodyear

history. Women have sought to be looked at and treated as equals in the very society that they live and thrive in. In the case of Lilly Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., this issue was very prominent and was a matter of unethical business behavior. While companies such as Goodyear are in a capitalist economy and private business, allowing companies to treat their employees in such a manner is unethical because if one is required to do the same work, then one should get paid the same. It also keeps the wage gap been men and women distant while giving companies the idea that they are allowed to treat its employees unfairly while not having to abide by the law, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Goodyear is not morally justifiable when discriminating an employee’s wage solely based on their gender. Lilly Ledbetter was hired in 1979 as a supervisor in the Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, and over the years was denied merit raises due to her performance evaluations which resulted in her pension to be less than her male co-workers in the end. She noticed little things throughout her career but never realized how these little things really made an impact on her life. Working in a male dominated field, Lilly took many things