Last month US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a.k.a. the Notorious R.B.G. was awarded the Radcliffe Medal from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and she had some things to say to the young ladies out there.
It might be hard for us to imagine a time where, say, women serving on a jury would be an option, but not a necessity as a female citizen of the United States. But as recently as the 1970’s, that was exactly the case. “Young women today have a great advantage, and it is that there are no more closed doors. That was basically what the ’70s was all about. Opening doors that had been closed to women,” Ginsburg explained. And oh, open doors she did. Before being appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Ginsburg was a law professor, co-founder of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, and an advocate for Smart Girls everywhere.