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...ATTACK A STEREOTYPE: RUTH BADER GINSBURG, 44, of Columbia. Studied at Cornell, Harvard Law and Columbia Law. Married to tax lawyer; two children...
...parents had suggested a career as a high school teacher-good security for a woman-but Ruth Ginsburg believes that sex barriers are to be toppled. As one of four unpaid general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, Ginsburg argued-and last week won-her fourth major Supreme Court women's rights case, promising equal benefits for widows and widowers under Social Security. Her successful strategy: "To attack the most pervasive stereotype in the law-that men are independent and women are men's dependents." Ginsburg encourages her students to join in preparing her cases. Such experience...
...argued for that heresy so well that the teacher advised her to become a lawyer. She was the driving force behind California's Family Law Act of 1969, which first established the principle of no-fault divorce. She teaches courses in family law, sex discrimination (she and Ruth Ginsburg collaborated on a widely used casebook on the subject), and joins with Berkeley Anthropologist Laura Nader in a seminar on anthropology and the law. Often mentioned as a candidate to become the first woman Supreme Court Justice, Kay believes that law school should turn out students who are "able...
...Seley Ginsburg Palo Alto, Calif...
...Professor Ginsburg concedes that no one really knows the full implications of the amendments. Many divorced women with good jobs or other income undoubtedly would lose alimony rights, and the nearly automatic assignment of child custody to the divorced mother would end. More important, anti-ERA women believe that laws promoting the economic independence of women would penalize nonworking mothers and undermine the traditional family. Says Annette Stern, head of New York's Operation Wake Up: "The Equal Rights Amendment could be the turning point of whether family life, as we know it, will survive." Indeed, the referendum took...