Throughout her career, Ginsburg sought to solve the problem of gender-inequality. She joined the faculty of Rutgers, where she feared receiving a pay deduction due to the pregnancy of her second child. To avoid anyone suspecting her pregnancy, Ginsburg wore oversized clothing. Even since then, Ginsburg remained a problem-solver. Once she became a lawyer, Ginsburg often pursued gender-based cases. Unfortunately for her, juries in the 1970s were all-male, causing there to be a bias against cases with a female plaintiff. To combat this bias, Ginsburg instead represented cases with male a plaintiff.
By portraying a male as a victim of gender-discrimination, Ginsburg not only gained the sympathy of the court, but was able to make changes to beinifit women. In the 1973 case of Frontiero v. Richardson, Ginsburg successfully argued against a federal statute that gave more housing and medical benefits to men in the armed forces than to women.
Men in service were able to name their wives as a dependent for these benefits, but if a woman wanted to make her husband a dependent, she had to prove he was dependent on her for more than half of his support.
By presenting the case from this angle, Ginsburg convinced the court that the statue was discriminating against a man who was a dependent, and as a result, was able to have women in service receive better benefits. With her exceptional skills as a lawyer, Ginsburg won five out of six cases she argued before the Supreme Court, more than any other lawyer.
Ginsburg has always been one to uphold a strong, legal, moral foundation, “I think that every Justice of the Supreme Court and every Federal judge would subscribe to the principle that a judge must do what he or she determines to be legally right” (Judge Ginsburg, Nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Theoughout the 1970s, Ginsburg was dedicated to arguing cases based on gender discrimination against both men and women. The 1976 case of Craig v. Boren introduc vc ed the argument of discrimination against men when purchasing alchohol. Until then, women only had to be the age of eighteen or older to purchase alcohol, while men still had to be at least twenty-one years old. Ginsburg, who advised the plaintiff’s attorney, and submitted a amicus brief, assisted the court in recongnizing the blatant discrimination. Even as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, Ginsburg has used her position to support human rights, such as gender equality, separation of church and state, workers rights, and marriage equality. Judge Ginsburg has always based her decisions off of a strong moral foundation, a quality every true leader should possess.
Ginsburg’s youth had an impact on how she grew up to be a goal-setting woman. Her mother, Celia Bader, was her single greatest inspiration. After her mother’s death, Ginsburg went to Harvard Law School, where she was one in eight females in her class of over five-hundred students. They were asked by DEan Erwin Griswald how they felt for taking the places of qualified males. This motivated Ginsburg even more, whograduated top of her class. Law firms are usually eager to hire top students, yet Ginsburg was still denied every application due to being a woman. She was eventually hired by the ACLU to direct the Women’s Rights Project. On June 14, 1998, President Bill Clinton announced his nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
On August 3, 1993, Ginsburg was confirmed by the Senate in a 96-3 vote. She is the 107th Supreme Court justice, and the second female jurist. In the July 20, 1993 episode of the the radio program “Face Off”, Senator Alan K, Simpson of Wyoming gave his opinion on the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Just Ginsburg’s qualifications are impressive. She is self-reliant and should make a splendid addition to the Supreme Court” (Alan K. Simpson, “Face Off”). In October of 2002, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was added to the Nation Women’s Hall of Fame in recognition of her many accomplishments as a woman who started as an advocate for gender-equality, and ended with a legitimate role in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice to the United States Supreme. Before her current position, she was an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who fought for gender equality. Since her career as a lawyer, Ginsburg has used her position in the Supreme Court to defend human rights. She has been criticized for her liberal dissents, resulting in her nickmane ‘The Notorious RBG’ in reference to the late rapper ‘The Notorious B.I.G.’.
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