On The Basis Of Sex
Storyboard Text
- Harvard Law School1956
- He has cancer and he will have to rest.
- What about law school?
- I will take care of that, you rest!
- Why are you taking classes for your husband? You do realize you have to focus on your own classes and he's third year.
- I'm stronger than you think. I can focus on my classes and his.
- We’re told that despite being one of only nine women in her year, along with 491 men, Ginsburg’s asked to justify why she’s taking up a place that could have gone to a man.
- Please give me a chance! I was number 1 in all my classes.
- Women are too emotional to be lawyer.
- Ruth's husband Martin Ginsburg gets diagnosed of cancer.
- 1970Protesting
- Ruth takes over her and her husband's classes until he is able to return to school. Despite the fact that she is a first-year law student and he is in his third year.
- If the law discriminates on the basis of sex, then how will men and women ever become equals
- I'll help you with any action you decide to take.
- Ruth's husband finds a job, but her ambition of becoming a lawyer is put on hold since she is turned down by twelve law firms despite graduating first in her class, once again for the crime of being a woman.
- The United States begins to change around her, with the 1970s being a decade of freedom protests.
- The world is really changing
- Frustrated with being left out of the revolution, Ginsburg and her husband, Martin, see a chance to prove to the court that the very foundations of American law are sexist.
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created