Overview of RBG's career on gender
Apr. 28th, 2015 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitouthttp://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-ruth-bader-ginsburg-helped-pave-the-way-marriage-equality
A few quotes to whet your appetite:
"Before she was on the bench, as an academic and co-founder of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, Ginsburg brought seven sex discrimination cases to the Supreme Court – and won six. Perplexing some feminists and the justices themselves, several of her cases had male plaintiffs, including a widower who wanted to be the primary caregiver for his son."
"“The justification must be genuine, not hypothesized or invented post hoc in response to litigation,” Ginsburg wrote of any law that classified by gender. “And it must not rely on overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of males and females.”"
It's a wonderful article, using simple and accessible language in a controversial area to show how RBG's career has been in many ways a demonstration that treating men and women more equally -- in every social institution -- is compatible with our most basic values as Americans.
A few quotes to whet your appetite:
"Before she was on the bench, as an academic and co-founder of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, Ginsburg brought seven sex discrimination cases to the Supreme Court – and won six. Perplexing some feminists and the justices themselves, several of her cases had male plaintiffs, including a widower who wanted to be the primary caregiver for his son."
"“The justification must be genuine, not hypothesized or invented post hoc in response to litigation,” Ginsburg wrote of any law that classified by gender. “And it must not rely on overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of males and females.”"
It's a wonderful article, using simple and accessible language in a controversial area to show how RBG's career has been in many ways a demonstration that treating men and women more equally -- in every social institution -- is compatible with our most basic values as Americans.