How Justice Ginsburg Handled Phone Calls About Her Misbehaving Kid
Society was less accepting of female lawyers when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg first joined the profession.
Speaking at a judicial conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., Ginsburg offered an example to show how women were treated differently in the earlier days of her career, according to the Associated Press and the Colorado Springs Gazette. When Ginsburg was a law professor at Columbia University in New York, she recalled, she got frequent calls from her son’s school because he was misbehaving.
“One day, I was particularly wary, and I said, ‘This child has two parents. I suggest you alternate calls,’ ” Ginsburg said. After that, the school called less often. “They were much more concerned about taking a man away from his job than a mother away from hers,” Ginsburg said.
Ginsburg also commented on confirmation hearings, a subject she addressed during the ABA Annual Meeting. In Colorado, Ginsburg said television has lengthened confirmation hearings because the senators play to the cameras, AP reports. At the ABA meeting, Ginsburg called for a return to less contentious confirmation hearings.
