![]() ![]() Bosses didn't think a young mom could put in long hours like men did. Not only was she female, but Ruth also had another strike against her: She was a mother. more than forty firms rejected her application! Wrong! Not a single one came! On their job postings, law firms stated "MEN ONLY". She had graduated at the very top of her class at a top law school. "Each spring, big law firms compete to hire graduates from the best law schools in the country. That might make men think women were unfit to become lawyers." (Pages 42, 43 and 44) Even worse, she was afraid of giving a wrong answer. Ruth sometimes had to make a mad dash for a makeshift restroom a block away.īeing the only girl in a class was hard, especially for shy Ruth. The large classroom building still had no women's bathroom. Harvard Law had only started accepting women students a few years earlier. There were only nine women in her class - and more than five hundred men! That wasn't the only reason she stood out at Harvard Law School in 1956. ![]() Soon she stood out in her class as a star student. ![]() "But at law, Ruth proved to be a natural. Ruth Ginsburg's life and sense of justice. Project Learning English by myself through children's books. ![]()
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