Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows different side to DePaul audience

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Nice article in the Chicago Suntimes:

It was a different side of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that a DePaul University audience of some 500 were treated to at a centennial celebration for its law, business and music schools Friday night at the Chicago History Museum.
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Born Mar. 15, 1933, in a low-income, working class neighborhood in Brooklyn, she graduated first in her class at Cornell University in 1954. She spoke of the male-dominated, hostile environment she encountered at Harvard Law School.

“In the law, women were simply not there in the ancient days when I went to law school, maybe 3 percent of women were of the legal profession. My entry class at Harvard had over 500 people — nine women,” the justice said.

But Ginsburg excelled at Harvard, becoming the first female member of its prestigious Law Review before transferring to Columbia Law School, where she again graduated first in her class in 1959. It was the gender discrimination she encountered when seeking employment that shaped her early feminist views, she said.

http://www.suntimes.com/20035073-761/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-shows-different-side-to-depaul-audience.html

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1. The article is wrong about

the neighborhood she came from. She grew up in Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn and went to Madison High School, which at the time was predominantly Jewish and Italian. It was not at the time what would be considered working class. It was a typical Brooklyn neighborhood for its time.

I don't get why reporters need to add unnecessary "drama" to people's background.

[BeyondGeography]

2. “People always ask me, ‘Did you always want to be a judge?’ What I wanted to do was get a job.”

She is a treasure. I wish she could live forever.