![]() ![]() There was a lot of speculation about why a lawyer hailed as a Thurgood Marshall of women’s rights was representing so many men. Women’s Rights Project, she took on groundbreaking cases to build constitutional protections against gender discrimination. As a law professor and leader of the A.C.L.U. When Ginsburg returned to the U.S., she launched what would become her radical project. “Sweden, where everything and everyone works.” Swedish women weren’t choosing between careers and family, and they inspired the young lawyer. Marty recovered and their relationship was very central to her work and her understanding of how it was possible to organize society.” This understanding turned into a mission after law school, when Ginsburg took on a legal study in Sweden where feminism was on the rise. And she basically took all the notes for him and made it possible for him to graduate on time, while in fact, raising their baby and being a law student herself. “During their time in law school, Marty became very sick. And Marty did all the cooking.” “In the historic Harvard Yard, you will see your classmates, men from every section of the country.” A year after Marty enrolled at Harvard Law School, Ruth followed, one of only nine women in a class of more than 550, with a new baby girl in tow. “Her husband, Marty, was a fabulous cook, and she was a terrible cook. “He was the first boy I ever knew who cared that I had a brain.” Theirs was not a typical 1950s marriage, but an equal partnership. She earned a scholarship to Cornell, where she met a jovial sophomore who became the love of her life. “I pray that I may be all that she would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve, and daughters are cherished as much as sons.” The other pivotal turn in Ginsburg’s path came during college. It was that shattering loss, Ginsburg said many years later, that instilled in her the determination to live a life her mother could have only dreamed about. But the day before Ruth’s high school graduation, her mother died of cancer. And she played a very traditional female role in her high school.” Ginsburg’s mother, who’d been a star student until she was forced to drop out of school to put her brother through college, had big ambitions for her daughter. When she was in high school, she was a twirler. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg grew up in Brooklyn in a lower middle-class family. And it was really very significant in the march toward the court establishing a jurisprudence of sex equality.” What inspired Ginsburg to take on such a bold project, and there was little sign of anything radical in the beginning. And that was the kind of case that she brought. “Ruth Ginsburg went to court on his behalf and said that law, that distinction between mothers and fathers incorporates a stereotyped assumption of what women do and what men do in the family, and is unconstitutional.” “Laws of this quality help to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.” “She won. “Stephen Wiesenfeld’s case concerns the entitlement -” He wanted to work less and stay home with his son, but found out only widows, not widowers, were eligible for Social Security payments. One key case involved a man from New Jersey, whose wife died during childbirth. Chief Justice, and may it please the court.” In fact, in many of the landmark cases Ginsburg argued before the Supreme Court as a young lawyer for the A.C.L.U., her clients were often men. She wanted to make it clear that there should be no such thing as women’s work and men’s work.” “Mr. She had a really radical project to erase the functional difference between men and women in society. “The project she brought to the Supreme Court first as the leading women’s rights lawyer of her day, and then as a justice for all those years, I actually think has been kind of misunderstood. We’re Notorious R.B.G.!” But her legal legacy was even more sweeping. Who else got six movies about ’em and still livin’?” Ginsburg was hailed as a crusader for women’s rights. “To her fans she’s known as Notorious R.B.G.” Singing: “Supreme Court’s a boys club. Small, soft-spoken, yet fiercely determined, she was an unstoppable force who transformed the law and defied social conventions. “I surely would not be in this room today without the determined efforts of men and women who kept dreams alive, dreams of equal citizenship.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the Supreme Court’s feminist icon. Transcript The Radical Project of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court’s feminist icon, not only changed the law, she also transformed the roles of men and women in society, according to Linda Greenhouse, contributing writer and former Supreme Court Correspondent for The Times. ![]()
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