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12 Feb, 2015

Bloomberg interview

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In an interview with Bloomberg, Ginsberg talks about equal pay for women, birth control and abortion access.

If the woman has the means to go to a neighboring state, if she can buy a plane ticket or a bus ticket and afford the cost of the procedure, she’s safe. And she and her daughters will always have the choice. The people who don’t have the choice are poor women.

On her male colleagues:

I was a law school teacher. And that’s how I regard my role here with my colleagues, who haven’t had the experience of growing up female and don’t fully appreciate the arbitrary barriers that have been put in women’s way.

And how she believes a female president can counter “unconscious bias” toward women.

But I have to add a caveat. I know we have seen women heads of state in Israel, in India. And that doesn’t necessarily mean that the rest of society will progress along the same lines…Yes, there are blind spots. But in time they will go.

3 Mar, 2014

Makers interview

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Ginsburg talks about breaking legal ground for women, her first case before the Supreme Court, and her husband’s support.

I attribute part of my success in law school to my daughter. She was 14 months old when I started. Every day at 4 o’clock, my time at law school was over, and it was children’s time. Each was a respite from the other. When my daughter went to sleep, I was happy to go back to the books.