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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

- Ruth GInsburg worked with her husband, Martin Ginsberg, on a 1972 tax case Moritz v. Commissioner. The case challenged a situation in which a dependent-care deduction allowed to divorced men, widowers, and women was denied to a single man caring for his ailing mother. 

- The Moritz case launched Ginsberg into association with the ACLU Women's Rights Project. She used the 14th amendment (Equal Protection clause mandates that every state provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction) to eradicate gender discrimination by many laws, racking up five victories in six Supreme Court appeals. Rader almost single-handedly convinced courts/legislatures to eliminate gender classifications like a woman's right to be executor of her son's estate (Reed v. Reed 1970), and a female Air Force lieutenant's right to secure housing allowances and medical benefits for her husband (Frontiero v. Richardson 1973). 

- In Craig v. Boren 1976 she fought for the right of the "thirsty boys" in Oklahoma to buy beer at the Honk n' Holler at the same age as young women. In this case Ginsburg convinced the court to agree that (in her own words) the "familiar stereotype: the active boy, aggressive and assertive; the passive girl, docile and submissive was "not fit to be written into law."