Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 120cm x 100cm Acrylic on Canvas

“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.“

„Kämpfe für die Dinge, die dir wichtig sind. Aber kämpfe so, dass sich dir andere anschließen wollen.“

As a US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for equality until her death – not least because she herself had to overcome numerous sexist prejudices along the way. Joan Ruth Bader was born in New York in 1933 to Jewish immigrants. Her parents are simple people, but they attach great importance to their daughter’s education. While studying at Cornell University, Ruth finally met Martin Ginsburg, whom she married shortly thereafter. A year after the birth of her first child, she follows her husband to Harvard Law School to study law. There are 500 students in her class, Ruth is one of nine women. Nevertheless, the dean of the faculty asked her at the time why she was taking away a man’s place at university. As a result, the issue of gender equality becomes the focal point of her legal work. Although she completes her studies with top marks, nobody initially wants to give the Jewish woman with her child a job. But Ruth Bader Ginsburg fights her way through. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed the mother of two as a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. After being nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, she was sworn in as a judge on the Supreme Court, where she campaigned, among other things, for abortion rights, opening up marriage to homosexuals and reducing the death penalty. On September 18, 2020 she died after a long illness at the age of 87.