Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has added an extra wrinkle for conservative & independent women voting this year. These women need to ask themselves, are you pro-woman, do you enjoy freedoms and equality, and do you recognize that much of that is thanks to liberal justices like RBG?
Slate writes:
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began her legal career in 1959, the United States was a nation of gender apartheid. Women were formally regarded as second-class citizens whose duties consisted of finding a husband, raising children, and maintaining a home. They were barred from countless professions, frequently denied access to an education, and paid substantially less than men—openly and legally—who did the same work. And they had no right to control their reproductive lives.
Ginsburg set out to change all that. The justice famously said: “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”
During her legal career, Ginsburg helped fight for change in the following areas (among others):
- Breaking the gender barrier in college & law firms
- Closing the gender pay gap
- Stopping discrimination for pregnant women at work
- Advance to rights of women in the military
- Helping women get equal preference in estate disputes
- Made it easier for women to serve on juries
- Enabled banks to give credit to women without a male co-signer
- Reaffirming the constitutional right to access legal abortion
Regardless of political affiliation, there is no way around it, all women are better off because of Ginsburg.
Experts believe (and evidence shows) that stacking the court with conservative judges will mean stepping backward and stripping some of these rights away from women.
Donald Trump has already been losing ground with women. For instance, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that in Wisconsin non-college-educated white women gave Trump a 16 point advantage, but now this group favors Biden by 9 points. Nationwide, the Washington Post writes:
Trump still leads among White non-college-educated women, but in what must be a three-alarm fire for Republicans, the pollsters report, “Of the women who usually vote for Republicans, 25% are voting for Biden this year (71% are voting for Trump).”
The rhetoric from Trump and his allies is helping either.