Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Long View

To today’s youth, judgeship as an aspiration for a girl is not at all outlandish. Contrast the ancient days, the fall of 1956, when I entered law school. Women accounted for less than three percent of the legal profession in the United States, and only one woman had ever served on a federal appellate court.

That quote is pulled from an opinion piece that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, and which was published in the New York Times on Sunday, Oct. 2.

These days, it is more common to hear about the lack of diversity in Big Law, and progress on gender ...