The gender-discrimination warrior: The world will always remember Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t let her advancing age and deteriorating health stop her from giving an oral argument (Photo: Courtesy)

In a press statement dated September 19, the US Supreme Court announced the demise of Supreme Court Judge Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg was at the forefront of fighting for women’s rights, a task she undertook with passion from the very onset of her career.

Born in 1933, Joan Ruth Bader’s love for education was instilled by her mother. She excelled not only in her early education, excelling in high school, but she went on to break the glass ceiling in law school, a male-dominated world at the time.