{"id":10329,"date":"2013-04-11T21:12:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:06:00","slug":"photo-feature-lilly-ledbetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=10329","title":{"rendered":"Photo feature: Lilly Ledbetter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lilly Ledbetter, a leader in the fight to close wage gaps between women and men, wowed more than 200 people who attended a public speech at the Gallogly Events Center and a private reception Monday night.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ledbetter, Jacksonville, Ala., spoke about her fight for equal pay and fair treatment by her employer and the efforts that led to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. In 2009, the act became an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She also signed copies of her book\u00a0\u201cGrace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her visit to Colorado Springs is made possible by the Pikes Peak Women and Women\u2019s Resource Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Event photos follow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10330\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7177.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10330\" alt=\"Lilly Ledbetter, front, addresses a crowd of supporters after an introduction by former Colorado Springs Mayor and UCCS alumna Marylou Makepeace.\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7177-555x369.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7177-555x369.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7177-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilly Ledbetter, front, addresses a crowd of supporters after an introduction by former Colorado Springs Mayor and UCCS alumna Marylou Makepeace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10331\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7126.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10331\" alt=\"Lilly Ledbetter signed copies of her book before and after her Tuesday speech at the Gallogly Events Center.\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7126-555x369.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7126-555x369.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7126-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilly Ledbetter signed copies of her book before and after her Tuesday speech at the Gallogly Events Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10333\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7151.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10333\" alt=\"Lilly Ledbetter signs a copy of her book for local business woman Laura Muir.\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7151-555x369.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7151-555x369.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC_7151-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilly Ledbetter signs a copy of her book for local business woman Laura Muir.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>\u00a0&#8212; Photography by Tom Hutton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lilly Ledbetter, a leader in the fight to close wage gaps between women and men, wowed more than 200 people who attended a public speech at the Gallogly Events Center and a private reception Monday <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=10329\" title=\"Photo feature: Lilly Ledbetter\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_7177-555x369.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-2GB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10362,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/10362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}