During her long lifetime, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been a lawyer, law professor, and Supreme Court Justice, but through it all, she has been a staunch supporter of women’s rights. Ruth was one of the very few women in her Harvard law class, and she was turned down for a clerkship position because of her gender, so she understands quite clearly the difficulties and frustrations of having one’s abilities judged by one’s gender. Ruth co-founded the first law journal in the US to focus on women’s rights, the Women’s Rights Law Reporter, and coauthored the first lawbook case on sexual harassment. As part of the Women’s Rights Project, she argued cases that applied the Equal Protection Clause to women and argued for both equal treatment and equal responsibility for women under the law. In addition to stepping up to the plate so many times for women, it’s worth noting that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is just an awesome person in her own right, one of those ladies whose very life says, “Girls can’t what now?” She attending Harvard Law School before it was common for women to do so, became the first tenured woman at Columbia Law School, made the Harvard Law Review while taking care of both her baby daughter and her sick husband, underwent cancer treatments without missing a day of work, and became the second woman to every be selected as a United States Supreme Court Justice. Ruth has not only spent her life supporting women’s rights as a lawyer and a judge, but she has also been a powerful inspiration to women everywhere of the heights they can reach.
Today, be inspired to…Reach for the top. You can be the best, the CEO, the President, the owner—nothing is out of your reach.
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