Ginsburg Championed Gender Equality Before Joining High Court
- Litigated trailblazing cases that challenged sex stereotypes
- Founding director of ACLU Women’s Rights Projects
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made an indelible mark on the law as an advocate for gender equality long before she became an icon on the U.S. Supreme Court. She died Friday at age 87.
Ginsburg designed a legal strategy that directly challenged longstanding gender stereotypes as a way to fight sex discrimination, legal scholars said. The arguments she advanced as an attorney led to decisions that tore down biased laws, recognized new protections for women workers, and created precedents that continue to influence the law decades later, scholars said.