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On the basis
of sex!

RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Born in March 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was
one of the few women in 1956 allowed to
Harvard Law School. Together with 500 men
and only 9 women she took classes in
law. Not surprisingly this was a hard time for
Ruth and the other girls. Back
then it was not meant for women to study law.

The official invitation of the Dean of Harvard to
all female law students to ask
the question shows the attitude of society at
that time.
“Why are you at Harvard

Law School, taking the

place of a man?”

At the beginning of her professional career,

Ruth had difficulties to find employment,
mostly because of her sex. In 1972 Ruth co-
founded the Women’s Rights Project at the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She
participated in over 300 gender

discrimination cases by 1974. Her strategy
was to not ask the court to end all gender
discrimination at once, but taking aim at
specific discriminatory statutes and building
on each successive victory.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg played a very important
role in eliminating gender-based
discrimination in US law. With her
determination and ambition, she has managed
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an American to prove herself in a man's world. At the same
lawyer and Associate time, she has shown that as a feminist you
don't have to give up family life. Her husband
Justice of the US Supreme Court. and her family have always played an

important role in her life.

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