In Ruth we trust...

It’s hard to write only a few words about Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Just the initials RBG have a mythical aura. Icon. Rebel. Hero. Powerhouse. It’s not surprising but still utterly exasperating that finishing at the top of her Columbia Law School graduating class of 1959 she found it difficult to find work as a lawyer simply because she was a woman. When hired as an assistant professor at Rutgers Law School in 1963 she was asked to take a lower salary because of her husband’s high one. Seriously, who needs feminism? Once she hit her stride in the 1970s she was a leader in the women’s rights movement with a number of important gender based legal battles to her name. She was nominated to the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton (not a feminist icon) in 1993 and the history of her work there is easily found. What is there to say about a woman who was intelligent, kind, inclusive, wise and powerful? RBG used her abilities and her position to better the lives of others, particularly women, until her death earlier this year at the age of 87. She worked tirelessly to improve the position of women in the US for over 50 years, and her work resonated with women’s rights activists around the world. For her wisdom, her passion and her vision we thank her and will always remember her.