It was 1959, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was about to graduate from Columbia Law School, where she had transferred after two years at Harvard to be with her husband Martin. She had been an oddity at Harvard, one of only nine women law students in her class. She remembers wanting to drop through a trapdoor when the dean at Harvard asked her to justify taking up the place where a man could be. Still, she was surprised when being on law review at both Harvard and Columbia and first in her class at Columbia did not make her a sought-after hire....
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