Not when firms refused to hire her, even though she was more qualified than most of the men they were happy to say “yes” to. I can’t believe how much pressure we asked this one woman in her late-80s to endure for us.īorn into a world in which being Jewish and a woman was even more of a double burden than it is today, she never accepted unjust barriers for herself or anyone else. What Ginsburg embodied every day of her life was a steadfast yet electrifying refusal to accept the unacceptable. Because Justice Ginsburg’s true gift was not in arguing against an unjust majority - that was merely one expression of her power. Now I fear that the dissents that made her legendary will overshadow her full legacy. She didn’t do all this so I would know her name. And while Ginsburg clearly had fun with her late-in-life elevation to cultural icon, I suspect she’d also have been OK with me not knowing. I didn’t learn any of this until much later, when her ferocious dissents - and the humor and hard work of admirers like Aminatou Sow, Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik - made her a folk hero. Her early work radically expanded not just the possibilities for my career as a feminist activist and writer, but for my very life as a woman. While I was learning to walk, learning to read, learning what was and what wasn’t safe to put in my mouth, she was pursuing a groundbreaking string of lawsuits, methodically enshrining in the nation’s jurisprudence a robust right to freedom from discrimination on the basis of gender. Reed, and a young lawyer named Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-wrote the brief that formed the basis of the winning case. Supreme Court unanimously ruled - for the first time - that the 14th Amendment bans discrimination on the basis of gender. I was born in November 1971, just days before the U.S. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) This article is more than 2 years old. A participant holding a sign at a candle light vigil and memorial for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Washington Square Park in New York City on September 19, 2020.
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