Sex Appeal | Radiolab Presents: More Perfect Podcast | Season 2 Episode 5

How RBG won a key battle for gender equality with frat boys and beer.

“Equal protection of the laws” was granted to all persons by the 14th Amendment in 1868. But for nearly a century after that, women had a hard time convincing the courts that they should be allowed to be jurors, lawyers and bartenders, just the same as men.

A then-lawyer at the ACLU named Ruth Bader Ginsburg set out to convince an all-male Supreme Court to take sex discrimination seriously with an unconventional strategy. She didn’t just bring cases where women were the victims of discrimination; she also brought cases where men were the victims.

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Supreme Court archival audio comes from Oyez®, a free law project in collaboration with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell.

Illustration by Mitch Boyer of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Video by Michael Snyder, Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.