Ruth Bader Ginsburg

💗 15. March 1922 🖤 18. September 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15 1933 in Brooklyn, New York to Celia Amster Bader and Nathan Bader, a jewish immigrant. She attended Cornell University, which she graduated in 1954 with a bachelors degree. In the same year she married Martin D. Ginsburg. Soon she started attending Harvard Law School, where she and the other few women in her class faced gender discrimination and were often excluded and ridiculed. After transferring in her last year, she graduated from Columbia Law School in 1959. However it was very hard for her to find employment. After employment as a law clerk, Ginsburg began as a professor of Law for Rutgers University. In 1980 she was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals, where she served for 13 years. In 1993 Ginsburg was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, being the first jewish woman in history. On the Supreme Court she advocated for gender equality. For example, she wrote the court's opinion on United States v. Virginia, ruling that women could not be denied entry into the Virginia Military Institute. She also worked with Barrack Obama during his presidency on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to combat pay discrimination. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18 2020, due to pancreatic cancer.

"We are at last beginning to relegate to the history books the idea of the token woman."