Summary

In Part Three: "On Gender Equality: Women in the Law," the authors describe the growth of Ginsburg's social activism in the 1970s. While teaching at Rutgers Law School, Ginsburg led classes on "sex discrimination and the law" (114). She later became the first tenured professor at Columbia University Law School. Meanwhile, she contributed to cases like Reed v. Reed and Frontiero v. Richardson.

Chapter 1, "Women and the Law," presents Ginsburg's symposium introduction, published in Rutgers Law Review. The piece discusses women's liberation, citing women's efforts to "rescue the submissive majority from the confinement of old-style state protective laws and the discriminatory practices of employers" (121). Ginsburg references cases like Kirstein v. University of Virginia and Seidenberg v. McSorley's Old Ale House to discuss the importance of continuing the fight for...