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Justice Ginsburg's impact on generations of women
From early on in her studies and career, Ginsburg was a trailblazer.
Video by Chris Cirillo
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From early on, Ginsburg was a trailblazer for women.
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In the 1950s, Ginsburg went to Harvard Law School, where she was one of nine women in a class of 500 students. There she became the first female member of the Harvard Law Review.
Ginsburg later transferred to Columbia University Law School after her husband got a job in New York City. When Ginsburg graduated at the top of her class in 1959 without a job offer from a New York law firm, she accepted a clerkship with a Manhattan federal judge.
\"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.\"-Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ginsburg also pursued the law through academia. When she joined the faculty of Rutgers University in New Jersey, she became one of the first women to teach at any American law school. At Columbia Law School, Ginsburg became the school's first female tenured professor.
For women in the law, Ginsburg's story is especially meaningful -- both for those near her own generation, who \"suffered from the same discrimination in education and unemployment as she did,\" but also those in the generations to follow, because she broke \"all of those barriers for all of us that came after her,\" Gluck said.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted Friday, \"As a young mom heading off to Rutgers law school, I saw so few examples of female lawyers or law professors. But Ruthie blazed the trail. I’m forever grateful for her example — to me, and to millions of young women who saw her as a role model.\"
Gluck, who clerked for Ginsburg in the 2003 term, said the legendary lawyer \"was an extraordinary mentor to all of her law clerks. She cared deeply about our work lives and our personal lives. She got to know our children.\"
\"She demanded a lot of us because she demands more from herself,\" Gluck continued.
\"She taught me how to be a lawyer,\" Gluck said. \"She taught me what it means to lead a life committed to the causes of social justice.\"
\"And on a personal level, she and her husband, Martin, modeled what it means to be in an equal marriage, an equal parenting relationship,\" Gluck said.
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Ginsburg met her husband, who also became a lawyer, as a Cornell University undergraduate. Martin Ginsburg died from cancer in 2010 after 56 years of marriage.
\"They had a marriage for the ages,\" Gluck said, \"and she role modeled that as much to us as she role modeled the law.\"
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\"I think it is absolutely extraordinary that Justice Ginsburg was both a hero to the women of the 1970s and then an icon to the little girls of today,\" Gluck noted. \"She was an amazing teacher and her influence remains with me today and will remain with me forever.\"
ABC News' Devin Dwyer contributed to this report.
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