Notorious RBG By Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In the 2015 book, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik evaluate the significant role Ginsburg has had to United States policy on equality and women’s rights. The authors of Notorious RBG, present the structured internal initiative and personal influences of Ginsburg, that contributed to her life-long achievement in academics and scholarly enlightenment. Carmon and Knizhnik describe how Ginsburg juggled her professional aspirations and family life while continuing to present the legal world with arguments that aided in shifting popular opinion about female equality compared to males in our society. In Notorious RBG, Ginsburg’s meticulous and tireless devotion to cases for the Women’s Project

She had lived and experienced the fate of an individual based on their sex, something no one could control, but certainly had to live with. After reading Notorious RBG, I was able to understand the immense progression in equality for gender in U.S. history; Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a key factor in the longevity of women’s rights. In the book, Carmon and Knizhnik delve into the calculating and strategic part of Ginsburg’s mind, she looked at the ramifications of pregnancy as being related to a woman’s freedom, and how gender bias affected a large untapped group of Americans. Our society had fostered a sub-status stigma to females while deeming male’s superior. Ginsburg also envisioned a world in which gender didn’t affect any citizen’s dream or goal. I do not see her as a feminist, rather, I see her as a person who contests that each sex is able to participate on a level playing ground. Not only does she deem equal treatment of women fair, she also cares that men are able to be seen equal to a woman. The authors write of Ginsburg’s view of equality, and they show the reader why Ginsburg’s outlook can be concluded as a non-gender bias ideal of equality. Reported as Ginsburg’s favorite client, Wisenfel gave her the opportunity to contended that a male be treated equally to a woman. She won her argument that a male should benefit from their deceased wife’s Social Security fund. Carmon and

The average view of a culture impacts each person who is part of it. Ginsburg was no different in that regard, but she used her experiences as reminders and lessons to teach newer generations about having an awareness regarding equality. Carmon and Knizhnik evaluate the importance of everyday normal life during Ginsburg’s upbringing, they set the tone for life in the United States for the generation of Americans born in the 1930s. The authors elaborate on the average response to racial discrimination, religious discrimination, intermingling, and the expectations our society continually put on the female gender. Ginsburg, growing up in Brooklyn, can recount her memories of living in a community where the Catholics and Jews didn’t intermingle, or go to the same schools. Among the other factors preventing a diverse and well developed utopia, the taboo of socializing with people of different religious backgrounds and the sub-status affiliation the female gender was awarded, would have had a lasting and ingrained effect on Ginsburg as a Jewish woman. Naturally, Ginsburg was bound to look at equality for all as the ideal to what America should strive for. The psychological presence that shaped a person, knowing full well there must be a better option than that type of thinking is profound. As Carmon and