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Women’s equality activist Lilly Ledbetter at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 30, 2019, where advocates and House Democrats held a news conference to introduce the Paycheck Fairness Act (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

By Ms. Editors | Lilly Ledbetter, an equal pay activist whose legal fight against her employer led to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, died this weekend. She was 86. 

“One of the next steps in reaching pay equity is the Paycheck Fairness Act—a bill that would amend the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to give workers stronger enforcement tools and remedies to help close the pay gap between men and women once and for all,” wrote Ledbetter in an op-ed for Ms. in January. “But things have been frustratingly stagnant in Congress.”

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A billboard on Oct. 1, 2024—the day of the vice presidential debate—on 34th Street outside Penn Station in Manhattan, New York City. (Roy Rochlin / Getty Images for DNC)

By Lynn M. Paltrow and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf | Project 2025’s endorsement of fertility awareness-based methods—which are less effective than other birth control methods—would require nothing short of a national campaign in menstrual and cervical mucus literacy.

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Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw at the Harvard University Hutchins Center’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony on Oct. 1, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (Erica Denhoff / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

By Carrie N. Baker | Thirty-five years ago, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to explain how multiple forms of discrimination interact to exacerbate each other, resulting in amplified forms of prejudice and harm. Last week, California became the first state to explicitly recognize intersectionality in discrimination law.

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