Ruth Bader Ginsburg : A Victim Of Gender Discrimination

Women’s equality has made huge advancements in the United States in the past decade. One of the most influential persons to the movement has been a woman named Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth faced gender discrimination many times throughout her career and worked hard to ensure that discrimination based on a person’s gender would be eliminated for future generations. Ginsburg not only worked to fight for women’s equality but fought for the rights of men, as well, in order to show that equality was a human right’s issue and not just a problem that women faced. Though she faced hardships and discrimination, Ruth never stopped working and thanks to her equality is a much closer reality than it was fifty years ago. When Ruth first

The significance of Lorena Week’s sex discrimination case was that women can use the legal system to achieve for equality. Week’s case led the National Origination for Women to challenge discriminatory laws. Lorena weeks was a single mother of three children living in Wadley, Georgia. She worked as a telephone operator for many years at the Southern Bell Company. As a single mother, Weeks struggled to provide for her family on her low wages. When the position of Switchman opened, Weeks applied for the position. The switchman job had higher wages and since weeks had been with the company for many years she had seniority rights for the position. When Weeks confronted the company, they said the position was reserved for men and didn’t consider

Throughout history many U.S. Supreme Court Justices have served for numerous years on the Supreme court making final decisions on diverse cases that have created long lasting impacts. The current supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and former justice Sandra Day O’Connor have not only made an impact but are proof that women are equal to men when it comes to court room decisions. Throughout the essay I will explain the background of the justice, the president who appointed them, and the accomplishments made on the Supreme Court.

Imagine being told that you do not need as much pay as a man because your husband is a professor and you do not need the money. This was the truth for Maxine Lampe when she addressed the school district about being paid less. Before her husband was done with graduate school, she brought the issue up with the school where she worked and was told that she could not get the head-of-household pay that men received, even though she was the breadwinner. This is not the only account of this happening. All over the country, women are getting paid less than men and being told that it’s okay. It is not okay.

“Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25, 195 4in the Bronx borough of New York City” (A&E Television Networks). She was born into a family that is Puerto Rican. “Her father Juan was a factory worker and mother Celina a nurse” (Academy of Achievement). At a young age she already knew what career she wanted to take on. “Childhood reading of the Nancy Drew mysteries piqued her interest in crime and detection, but the Perry Mason television show, with its dramatic courtroom scenes, inspired her to become an attorney” (Academy of Achievement). She was never confused about her career goals and worked hard to achieve higher standards. “From kindergarten through eighth grade, Sonia Sotomayor attended the Blessed Sacrament Parish School. Life at home for

Sonia lost her father at the early age of nine and was also diagnosed with type I diabetes only a year earlier. However, this did not stop her from having dreams and ambitions. From the age of ten she was determined to attend law school and to become an attorney. She graduated as the Valedictorian of her high school class. In college she first attended Princeton University on a full scholarship. Once Sotomayor graduated from Princeton, and after she married, she entered Yale Law School. After many years of hard work and excellent marks, she graduated from the Law School and from her school life. Sotomayor was hired straight out of school as an assistant district attorney of New York County. Sotomayor excelled at cross-examining and at simplifying matters for the sake of the audience. Alongside being well known for her skill she was also well known for her Democratic/Liberal leanings politically. After four years as an assistant attorney she began her own solo Law Firm, maintaining it for three or four years. Also, while she operated her own law firm she worked for another private law

The substantial amount of accomplishments in education and experiences in law, stands out amongst other candidates and makes her beyond qualified as a nominee. Furthermore, her life’s work can aid in her position as a Justice of the Supreme Court, where she can implement her teachings and life’s work into court

Sandra Day-O’Connor was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1981 by President Ronald Regan. An amazing woman, O’Connor’s accomplishments are many. After, surprisingly, being accepted into Stanford law school, O’Connor graduated third in her class of 102 in 1952 (Institute 2000). O’Connor, like many women of her time, could not get a job as a lawyer because of prejudice and discrimination. This did not stop this determined woman, or even slow her down! The road from a remote southwestern Arizona ranch to the first female Republican Senate majority leader and then first female Supreme Court Justice was fraught with stereotypical female prejudice.

When I think of someone that has had a great impact on my life, I always think of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She is not only an honorable justice, but has proved herself to be an amazing mother, wife, student, teacher, attorney, and judge that anyone can look up to. She is just an overall amazing influential woman that I hope to one day be like. I, of course, am not the only one who feels that way about her. Over the last several years, Justice Ginsburg has become a feminist icon that has inspired many memes and artwork. The book that I chose to review is a book that I had on my to-read virtual bookshelf for a long time for those same reasons. Thankfully, this course finally gave me the push that I needed to finally purchase the book.

In the speech "Equal Rights for Women," the author, Shirley Chisholm, argues why women are discriminated against and should have equal rights. She describes why the statement, “Do you type?” is prejudice against women by suggesting that women can’t have jobs that involve more than typing. She says that there is an assumption that women don’t have the same executive ability, orderly minds, stability, and leadership skills as men. Chisholm explains how women and black people are not all happy with their roles in society. She then goes on to say that she is more discriminated for being a woman than for being black.

In this paper, I will discuss a number of topics regarding woman and the Supreme Court from historical precedents to objective research to the importance of female judges and Justices and finally to the possibilities of the future. Each of these steps is vital to fully understanding how we got to our country’s current place in female jurisprudence and creating future opportunities for women both on the Supreme Court and in all other levels of the judicial system across the United States.

Women’s equality is an issue that has been around for awhile. While women have been given many rights to increase equality, including the right to vote and go to college, the problem hasn’t completely vanished. One area that still sees this is in sports. Women’s sports do not draw nearly as many fans and are not covered in the media as much as men’s sports, pay differences between male and female athletes are large, and female athletes have to wait longer to start their professional career than men, which risks their professional career before it even starts.

Despite her having good academic record, she continued to see her gender discrimination while seeking for employment after graduation, and this is when the rights for women changed for the greater good because Ruth believed that the law was blind about the gender rights and men and women were entitled to equal rights, so she had a tool at the palm of her hand, and that tool was the studies taken at Harvard where she graduated as a lawyer, and that made her powerful enough to solve the conflicts

Gender discrimination against women is out of control across the world and seeps into many aspects of women 's lives. This discrimination harms women in two ways. First, women directly experience stressful events. The experience of sexism is so common that some research suggests women can experience one to two instances of everyday sexism. But women aren 't only harmed by sexism through the physical stress caused by others. They are harmed to the extent that they internalize and adopt these sexist attitudes that can manifest as poor self-concept. This negative self-concept often obvious on a subconscious level, as women and men will demonstrate automatic negative biases against women (Ferguson, 2013).

You can't be shining lights at the bar because you are too kind. You can never be corporation lawyers because you are not cold-blooded. You have not a high grade of intellect. You can never expect to get the fees men get. I doubt if you [can] ever make a living. Of course you can be divorce lawyers. That is a useful field. And there is another field you can have solely for your own. You can't make a living at it, but it's worthwhile and you'll have no competition. That is the free defense of criminals. (Champagne).