tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

Some folks, both ladies and gents, are too young to have experienced how difficult work was for women in the earlier days (from the article):
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Ginsburg attended Harvard Law School, where women were barred from living in the dorms and from using certain campus facilities. When the dean hosted a dinner for the first-year women, Ginsburg recalled, “He asked each of us to stand up and tell him what we were doing taking a seat that could be occupied by a man.”

Discrimination dogged her early career. After t***sferring to Columbia Law School, she graduated first in her class, but she had trouble getting a job. She later accepted a position teaching civil procedure at Rutgers Law School, where her employers informed her that she would be paid less than her male colleagues because she had a husband who earned a good income. She and other female professors filed a federal class-action discrimination case against the university, and won. For fear of demotion, she hid her pregnancy with her son, James, until after her contract renewal. Simply living her personal and professional life at a time of openly discriminatory policies for women had positioned her to fight.
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https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/in-memory-of-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-1933-2020/

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Pure political Balderdash!

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

Too bad you're ill-informed because you've got that wrong - - many DO care, including her conservative colleagues.

tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

!!! IS NOT !!!

Iliamna1

You got that very wrong I remember as a young teenager that after my mother divorced her abusive and lazy first husband, she had a lot of difficulty getting insurance on her car due to HIS tickets and accident and needed his signature to get the insurance. He had disappeared after the divorce somewhere overseas and she was just SOL until an attorney got involved. Also, after she remarried and we had moved to Texas, she was working as a professor of nursing. She had gone to cash a check and the young man at the counter asked what her husband's profession was. She replied "I'm a college professor" and the young man kept insisting she tell what her husband did. He finally got a supervisor who O.K.'d her check based on HER profession. She was a Republican conservative, but she was clearly discriminated against based on her sex, Thank Heavens those days are over.

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Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Number one on president Trump's list for SCOTUS appointment is a woman. Maybe she'll go to bat for white men.

tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

Unlike yourself, apparently, RB Ginsburg didn't discriminate - - SHE wanted to achieve equal protection for everyone. This, from the article:

In 1973, Ginsburg took on another Supreme Court case. Sharron Frontiero was an Air Force officer whose husband, Joseph, had been denied the housing and medical benefits that female spouses of male Air Force officers received automatically...

It was in Frontiero that Ginsburg gave her first oral argument before the Supreme Court. “I knew that I was speaking to men who didn’t think there was any such thing as g****r-based discrimination and my job was to tell them it really exists,” she has said. To make the point to the nine men who were sitting on the bench, she quoted the nineteenth-century women’s-rights advocate Sarah Grimkè: “I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” She apparently succeeded...

Ginsburg’s team won the case. Yet they did not convince a majority of the justices that sex discrimination should be treated exactly like racial discrimination...

While at the ACLU, Ginsburg played a role in 34 Supreme Court cases, and won five of the six cases she argued before the court — Frontiero, Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, Califano v. Goldfarb, Duren v. Missouri, and Edwards v. Healy. Many of her cases involved sex discrimination against men, which she felt might rouse more sympathy among the male justices, and show that discrimination hurts everyone.

Ginsburg sometimes said that one of her favorite cases involved a man whose wife died in childbirth, leaving him alone to care for their newborn son. Stephen Wiesenfeld’s wife had been the primary breadwinner, and upon her death, he went to the local Social Security office to inquire about survivors’ benefits for a parent and learned that he didn’t qualify because he was a man. Ginsburg convinced the Supreme Court that the section of the Social Security Act that denied fathers benefits because of their sex was unconstitutional. She won a unanimous decision.

tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

Uhhh, NO, I don't think so - - but don't let it tie your girdle in a knot...

Rose42

A good read. I didn't like her politics at all but I admired her. She was tough.

tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

Thank you for sharing your mother's story. If the right-wing has their way, those days we'll be back on our doorstep. The even-jellicles believe in men-in-charge.

tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

Hmmmmm. Her politics were that she was in opposition to discrimination at all levels. So it seems that folks who "didn't like her politics" must be in favor of discrimination...

Rose42

You guess wrong. Her pro a******n stance was reprehensible and she was all for discriminating against that innocent life. The rest is pointless to go into.