RBG gave women the keys to financial security and freedom

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Ginsburg fought for women to have equal access to financial tools like credit cards and mortgages



Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived her life shattering glass ceilings, but the “notorious” academic, lawyer, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice spent the balance of her career trying to equalize the decks for American women.


While many will quickly argue that the fight for equality is still out of reach, with women making 80 cents to a man’s $1 and with so few women topping the organizational chart of the nation’s largest companies, it would be regrettable to forget all the ways that tangible progress for female financial independence and security was forged through the laws fought for by RBG.

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Ginsburg took on the whole notion of sex-based policies and turned it on its head, in part by focusing her legal theories on inequalities experienced by men. In one case representing widower Stephen Wiesenfeld, Ginsburg challenged a Social Security Act provision that allocated parental benefits only for widows who had minor children. Wiesenfeld, whose wife died giving birth to their son, was denied these benefits even though he had to endure all the demands and difficulties of raising a child alone.

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Ginsburg reportedly wanted to be remembered as “someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has.”

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