Kay, H. (2004). Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Professor of Law. Columbia Law Review, 104(1), 1-20. doi:10.2307/4099343 Retrieved http://www.jstor.org/stable/4099343?seq=1#page_scan_tabcontents
This article looks at the changes in the field of law historically from the number of female law students to the number or female faculty, but focuses on how Ginsburg has effect it. Born on March 15th 1933 to Central Europe and Irish immigrant, she gives her mother credit for encouraging her intellectual growth. She graduated top in her class at Cornell, and was one of nine women in her Harvard class. When her husband took a job in New York she applied to transfer to Columbia so her daughter could have both of her parents. But Harvard denied this request even …show more content…
Her first case was about Title XI in the work place. She was a key player in explaining how when a women’s ability to work properly or efficiently is compromised that is in break of Title XI. Another case talked about early in her career was about a military school in Virginia that didn’t allow females to enroll, even if they had all the right, and same qualifications as their male counterparts. Another important aspect of this article was the emphasis on Bader Ginsburg’s role in transitioning the constitutions interpretations into the modern era. Time and time again she has talked about how it must grow with us and adapt to fit the people. She has done a remarkable job at cherishing our countries founding ideals while also being an advocate to expand those ideas to cover everyone, women and other minorities. Through her casework and her balance of career and family has become a symbol of breaking the female stereotype. Showing that women don’t have to continue to be complacent in the home, taking care of the kids, if that isn’t what they want to do. Careers are an option and no one should have the right to tell a woman she can’t just because of her sex. Ginsburg played a pivotal role in changing people’s beliefs. One of these people being Chief Just Rehnquist, who during the 1970’s strongly believed in this stereotype. With her influence on the court he in 1993 he states his changed feelings about the self-fulfilling cycle of discrimination that women must fit into said
This article looks at the changes in the field of law historically from the number of female law students to the number or female faculty, but focuses on how Ginsburg has effect it. Born on March 15th 1933 to Central Europe and Irish immigrant, she gives her mother credit for encouraging her intellectual growth. She graduated top in her class at Cornell, and was one of nine women in her Harvard class. When her husband took a job in New York she applied to transfer to Columbia so her daughter could have both of her parents. But Harvard denied this request even …show more content…
Her first case was about Title XI in the work place. She was a key player in explaining how when a women’s ability to work properly or efficiently is compromised that is in break of Title XI. Another case talked about early in her career was about a military school in Virginia that didn’t allow females to enroll, even if they had all the right, and same qualifications as their male counterparts. Another important aspect of this article was the emphasis on Bader Ginsburg’s role in transitioning the constitutions interpretations into the modern era. Time and time again she has talked about how it must grow with us and adapt to fit the people. She has done a remarkable job at cherishing our countries founding ideals while also being an advocate to expand those ideas to cover everyone, women and other minorities. Through her casework and her balance of career and family has become a symbol of breaking the female stereotype. Showing that women don’t have to continue to be complacent in the home, taking care of the kids, if that isn’t what they want to do. Careers are an option and no one should have the right to tell a woman she can’t just because of her sex. Ginsburg played a pivotal role in changing people’s beliefs. One of these people being Chief Just Rehnquist, who during the 1970’s strongly believed in this stereotype. With her influence on the court he in 1993 he states his changed feelings about the self-fulfilling cycle of discrimination that women must fit into said