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Women to benefit from new equal pay law.(NEWSWATCH)

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President Barack Obama jump-started his administration in late January by signing an equal pay bill into law, making it easier for women to fight discrimination at work.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act salutes a 70-year-old retired Goodyear Tire Company worker who sued after learning that during her 19 years there, males were paid more for doing the same job she did.

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that an employee must file a discrimination claim within 180 days of the workplace's initial decision to pay them less than another employee for the same job.

The new law explicitly "makes each ...

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