When asked at the Sundance Film Festival for her thoughts on the nascent #MeToo movement, she was unequivocal with her praise: “It’s about time,” Ginsburg told her interviewer.
It was the same year the Equal Pay Act passed, said Ginsburg, and “that was the answer I got”.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime fighting for gender equality, but in an interview over the weekend the 84-year-old supreme court justice made clear she sees the fight as unfinished business.
But it was not the last sexist treatment Ginsburg would experience coming up through America’s educational and legal systems.