Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
Ruth Bader was born on March 15 1933 the daughter of two Jewish parents whose families had fled Europe for Brooklyn New York to escape anti-Jewish persecution Her father owned a fur shop for many years When the shop went out of business he got a job at a clothing store He was uneducated he had never finished high school
Ruth’s mother graduated from high school at the age of fifteen smart enough that she might have gone to college But at this point in history girls were discouraged from going to college So Ruth’s mother got a job to help pay for her brother’s college education Next came marriage and a husband who discouraged her from working outside the home Like many men of his time he thought that a woman’s place was in the home This was what Ruth saw as a girl
What Ruth also saw was a mother who loved books and loved to read and a mother who wanted her daughter to have the good education that she herself had been denied Ruth saw a mother who saved every penny she could for her daughter to someday go to college
