Summary

Chapter 4 begins on January 17, 1973. Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued a case in front of the United States Supreme Court. The case, Frontiero v. Richardson, pertained to sex discrimination in the United States military. Ginsburg argued that discrimination based on sex was unconstitutional, since discrimination based on race was unconstitutional, and both sex and race were traits that an individual could not control. The book then shits its focus to 1963. Ginsburg was hired as a law professor by Rutgers University. The university paid her a lower salary than her male colleagues. In 1965, she gave birth to her second child. Soon, she began to do volunteer work for the New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberates Union (ACLU). She began to take on gender discrimination cases, and she even helped to successfully sue Rutgers for equal pay between men and women. She soon hoped to one...