and that's interesting particularly in the case of greg abbott. as attorney general he defended a state university in texas against a woman who was being paid less than her colleagues for the same work because he said the federal law, the lily ledbetter act, doesn't apply to state cases in texas. and so obviously he won that case and the woman didn't get any compensation for having been paid unequally for years. >> and he pays the women in his own office less in one of the eight states in the country that tonight have these laws to protect women statewide. >> obviously not protected. >> it has been a little while since we passed the fair pay act and basically what it allows women to do is it gives them a longer period of time to sue for gender based pay discrimination because essentially what happened to lily ledbetter she didn't know she was being discriminated against until many years later. >> she got her pension. >> when she went to the courts they said, sorry, you know, your time limit expired.
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