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She was born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15th, 1933
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She graduated from Cornell at the top her class in 1954
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She had her first child in 1955
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She transfered from Harvard to Columbia where she graduated first in her class in 1959
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she accepted a job as a professor at Rutgers University Law School in 1963
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In 1970, she co-founded the Women's Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the U.S. to focus exclusively on women's rights
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In 1972, Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union
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1973, she became the Project's general counsel.
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Ginsburg accepted Jimmy Carter’s appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1980
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She served on the court for thirteen years until 1993, when Bill Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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In 1996, Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion in United States v. Virginia, holding that qualified women could not be denied admission to Virginia Military Institute.
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insburg dissented in the court's decision on Ledbetter v. Goodyear, 550 U.S. 618 (2007), a case where plaintiff Lilly Ledbetter filed a lawsuit against her employer claiming pay discrimination based on her gender under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In a 5–4 decision, the majority interpreted the statute of limitations as starting to run at the time of every pay period, even if a woman did not know she was being paid less than her male colleague until later.
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Following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, making it easier for employees to win pay discrimination claims, became law.[76][4] Ginsburg was credited with helping to inspire the law
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Ginsburg died from complications of pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at age 87