Parents' Guide to Notorious RBG Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg

NOTORIOUS RBG YOUNG READERS' EDITION begins with a girl named Kiki, Ginsberg's nickname when she was growing up in Brooklyn. Although it was a time when expectations for girls centered around marriage and raising a family, her mother encouraged her to follow her own path. That path led to Cornell University, where she met her husband Marty ("a boy who cared she had a brain"). They both attended law school, balancing marriage and a young daughter. While Marty quickly found a job, Ginsberg, even after tying for first in her class at Columbia Law School, found nothing. In 1963, she accepted a teaching position at Rutgers University Law School, where she and her fellow female professors successfully sued the school for pay discrimination. In 1972, now with two children, she went to back to Columbia, where she filed class action suits on behalf of its female employees and helped found the ACLU's Women's Rights Project. She argued and won her first case before the Supreme Court in 1973, and four years later was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Along the way, her greatest supporter was always her husband, Marty. In 1993, Ginsberg became the second woman to serve as a Supreme Court Associate Justice and earned a reputation for continuing "to give voice to my dissent if, in my judgement, the court veers in the wrong direction where important matters are at stake."