Ruth joan bader ginsburg biography of donald

Following her graduation she married classmate Martin Ginsburg, who was already a law student at Harvard.

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During the next two years, she coped with an infant daughter and her husband's diagnosis and recovery from a severe form of cancer while excelling academically in an environment which was less than welcoming to female students. Frankfurter refused to employ Ginsburg because she was a woman, a pattern repeated by New York City law firms.

She was ultimately hired as a law clerk by a district court judge in New York. Infollowing her participation in a comparative law project in Sweden sponsored by Columbia Universityshe became the second woman to join the law faculty of Rutgers University.

Ruth joan bader ginsburg biography of donald

At Rutgers, Ginsburg became increasingly committed to addressing social conditions that denied women choices and opportunities open to men. Appointed as the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union inGinsburg looked for sex discrimination cases that raised issues amenable to change through legislation.

She often employed the strategy of using male plaintiffs to show that laws that discriminated between men and women — even when supposedly designed to benefit women — were based on negative and unfair stereotypes that perpetuated the prevailing notion that women were generally dependent on men.