Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gender Equality

In 1999 she won the american bar association s thurgood marshall award for her contributions to gender equality and civil rights.

Ruth bader ginsburg gender equality. Since 1980 the aclu women s rights project has been building on ginsburg s work to ensure gender equality in all arenas of life. Ruth bader ginsburg is a u s. Born in 1933 in brooklyn new york bader taught at rutgers university law. Notorious rbg how ruth bader ginsburg became a trailblazer for gender equality.

Ginsburg and her colleagues were successful in striking down most laws that explicitly treat men and women differently on their face. A new documentary highlights the 85 year old jurist s work two decades before she joined the supreme court. However as we know women are still far from equal in our society. No living woman is more closely associated with the decades long push to enshrine gender equality into u s.

She is the second female justice after sandra day o connor of four to be confirmed to the court along with. She faced workplace discrimination in the 1960s despite graduating. Supreme court justice. Ruth bader ginsburg s landmark opinions on women s rights the supreme court justice is the second woman to hold the role and has battled gender discrimination since the 1970s.

Ruthanne deutsch l 04 ll m 16 of deutsch hunt pllc and dori bernstein ll m 89 who served as director of georgetown law s supreme court institute for the past nine years. Ruth bader ginsburg became just the second female u s. Ruth bader ginsburg versus the equal rights. Supreme court ginsburg was appointed by president bill clinton and took the oath of office on august 10 1993.

Supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg spoke to a packed auditorium at georgetown law on tuesday july 2 discussing gender equality in her personal life and in the law with two of her former law clerks. Ruth bader ginsburg became the second female justice of the u s. Law than the 86 year old jurist and.