Have 2 million. When Lilly Ledbetter discovered that no Aspen Institute years at goodyear she was making 40 less than three other areas managers doing the same job. 200,000 in her career, that was not taken into consideration for retirement and social security. For women of color the it is larger. In 2010 africanamerican women were earning 67. 7 to everymans dollar and Hispanic Women 58. 7 of all mens earnings. Lilly ledbetters story is everyones story. There are sixty million working women in the work force, two thirds are mothers bringing home their familys earnings. In many cases women ought sold breadwinners. From wall street to walmart it doesnt matter where you work, women are discriminated in the work force and that is a very broad statistical picture of the wage gap and Lilly Ledbetter is the poster child for the wage gap whether she wanted to or not. Here is her story from her point of view and that is just one womans experience. What we did is we put a lot of information in t
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For students looking for inspiration, there’s arguably no academic leader more inspiring than Benoit-Antoine Bacon, president and vice-chancellor of Carleton University.
Bacon, 48, leads an active and healthy lifestyle these days, but there was a time when he turned to alcohol, drugs and suicidal ideation to escape the depression that plagued him, after growing up in a highly dysfunctional and abusive household in Quebec.
That he managed to make peace with his past, turn things around for himself and become head of such an innovative institution is a compelling comeback story. That he’s been so open and honest in sharing his experience is a courageous example of leading from the front.