Ruth Bader Ginsburg; a hero, an icon, a brilliant woman whose life was spent fighting for equality. I first learned of RBG when working for Bella S.
Abzug (D-N.Y.) another brilliant woman and leader in the women’s movement. As a gay man, I owe much to both of them for fighting and speaking out for my rights.
RBG was a scholar on the front lines of the woman’s movement. Ginsburg understood discrimination against women from personal experience.
According to Wikipedia “At age 21, she worked for the Social Security Administration office in Oklahoma, where she was demoted after becoming pregnant with her first child.” Then “in the fall of 1956, Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she was one of only nine women in a class of about 500