Court of Appeals (the court that hears cases from lower courts when people don’t agree with the decision). In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Now people were thinking about Ginsburg whenever they thought about equal protection for women under the law. Through this project, Ginsburg won five out of six gender equality cases in front of the Supreme Court. Then in 1972, she helped start the Women’s Rights Project for the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that argues for fair treatment of all U.S. Soon Ginsburg was fighting many cases in court to help people who were being treated unfairly because of their gender-for instance, she won a case to allow pregnant women and women with children to serve in the military. Then she found out that other women were being paid less, too! She and her female colleagues demanded equal pay from the university-and they got it.
While she was teaching at Rutgers, Ginsburg found out that she was being paid less than male professors. This helped fuel her interest in fighting for women’s equality.
When students asked her to teach a class on how women were treated under the law, Ginsburg discovered some unfair practices-for instance, some working mothers weren't provided health insurance by their companies, even though their male coworkers were. Instead, she became a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. So even though Ginsburg graduated from law school with top grades, she couldn’t find a job as a lawyer.
After he graduated, the family moved to New York City, and Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated in 1959.Īt that time, many women did not work outside their homes, and some men believed that women weren’t as capable as men to work for pay. She studied government while on a scholarship at Cornell University, then enrolled at Harvard Law School two years after she married her husband, Martin “Marty” Ginsburg, in 1954. But they knew that education was important and encouraged her to learn as much as she could.
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