For almost three years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the only woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, and “it was a lonely position,” she said on Tuesday.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice, retired in 2006. After that, the makeup of the court felt off, Ginsburg told a crowd in North Little Rock, Ark.“There was something wrong with the picture,” she continued. “The public would see these eight rather well-fed men coming on the bench ...”
At an event Tuesday night hosted by the Clinton Foundation and Clinton School of Public Service, Ginsburg recalled sometimes feeling overlooked — from her time as a law faculty member to her time as the sole female justice. “You don't expect very much from women, so you kind of tune out when she speaks. But you listen when a man speaks,” she said. “Now that I have two sisters in law, it doesn't happen.”Sign Up
The appointments of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, in 2009 and 2010 respectively, changed things. They were the opposite of “shrinking violets,” Ginsburg said, and some of the challenges she and O’Connor experienced began to ease. That made her optimistic for the future, she added.
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