Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

https://doi.org/10.52214/cjgl.vi.9790

Abstract

In so many respects, the culmination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career took place in 1996, three years after she joined the Supreme Court and twenty-four years before her death. In U.S. v. Virginia, Justice Ginsburg convinced a majority of the Supreme Court to embrace the strongest formulation of a constitutional norm condemning sex inequality in the Court’s history. The new rule articulated in the U.S. v. Virginia case declared that “[s]ex classifications ... may not be used, as they once were, ... to create or perpetuate the legal, social, and economic inferiority of women.”

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Law and Gender

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Equal Rights Amendment Symposium Special Issue (Online Only).

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