Why are you taking classes for your husband? You do realize you have to focus on your own classes and he's third year.
I'm stronger than you think. I can focus on my classes and his.
We’re told that despite being one of only nine women in her year, along with 491 men, Ginsburg’s asked to justify why she’s taking up a place that could have gone to a man.
Please give me a chance! I was number 1 in all my classes.
Women are too emotional to be lawyer.
Ruth's husband Martin Ginsburg gets diagnosed of cancer.
1970Protesting
Ruth takes over her and her husband's classes until he is able to return to school. Despite the fact that she is a first-year law student and he is in his third year.
If the law discriminates on the basis of sex, then how will men and women ever become equals
I'll help you with any action you decide to take.
Ruth's husband finds a job, but her ambition of becoming a lawyer is put on hold since she is turned down by twelve law firms despite graduating first in her class, once again for the crime of being a woman.
The United States begins to change around her, with the 1970s being a decade of freedom protests.
The world is really changing
Frustrated with being left out of the revolution, Ginsburg and her husband, Martin, see a chance to prove to the court that the very foundations of American law are sexist.
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