This is how Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed her life – and ours.” “You could say that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life has been. On the other, we see her as a much older disputatious justice. A few meaty pages of afterword include more detail about Ginsburg's life and the important court cases she influenced.The author begins her story by showing, on one side of the 2-page spread, the future Supreme Court Justice, born in 1933, as a disputatious young girl. President Jimmy Carter appointed her as a judge in Washington, D.C., and Bill Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court, the first Jewish woman on the nation's highest court, where she continued to fight for equality. When law firms wouldn't hire her, she worked as a law professor and argued cases about equality for women. But Ruth's mother supported her ambitions and education, and Ruth went on to attend law school, where she met her husband and started a family, sharing household and child-rearing duties, an unconventional arrangement at the time.
Born into a Jewish family in 1930s Brooklyn, she grew up when girls were expected to raise families but not participate in the workforce, and encountered prejudice against Jews and other minorities. I DISSENT: RUTH BADER GINSBURG MAKES HER MARK tells the story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg rose to become a Supreme Court justice.
RBG's life and accomplishments are truly inspiring, a powerful model for young readers. The complicated legal ideas in the text are explained clearly and simplified for the intended age group, and the art humanizes the heroine and gives the book heart. When she encountered obstacles, she persisted. Born in an era when girls were expected to limit their aspirations to the domestic sphere, Ginsburg dedicated herself to fighting for the rights of women and minorities. Parents need to know that I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, by Debbie Levy and illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley, is an informative and engaging biography of the first Jewish woman to serve on America's highest court. She's articulate, confident, and powerful and became a justice on the highest court in the land. She fought for equality for women, African-Americans, other minorities. When she was denied positions or access, she pursued alternate career paths. She pursued higher education and law school and successfully managed both family and career. She overcame prejudice directed at her because she was female and Jewish. Though she came of age in an era when women weren't expected to work or achieve, she trusted her own path. RBG is an extremely impressive role model.
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