Jean Muy February 6, 2021
Bus 311-1801 Professor Buckler
Equal rights legislation is a massive topic that has been transpiring into the world for as many years as it’s started. Equality across both genders always has never gotten to where many women wanted it to be since this affected them the most compared to the men. This affected them personally since they always wanted to be treated the same as the men and have been overlooked in every situation possible. Starting with pay at their jobs being significantly lower than men and basically doing the similar tasks that were being asked of them to do. It came to a point where women have found absurd that how their lives are being handled by with their employers and everything in life as a whole. Many women in the world got sick of how they were getting looked in the public eye but no one had the audacity or courage to stand up for their own rights. Many decades of just mistreatment until it led to one significant person to stand up for everything that a woman has always wanted to happen, change in equal rights.
One woman in the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg had overseen herself as a person who wanted change to happen in equal rights. In the film “On the Basis of Sex”, she has seen as a powerful woman from the start that has no means to and end at anything and continues to reach her goal of becoming a lawyer. Despite of her having to go through many obstacles of getting overlooked at Harvard law school, she still managed to get her work done alongside her husband that later on reaches testicular cancer which sidelines him from completing his part of becoming a lawyer as well…however, Ginsburg stepped on the behalf of her husband to complete the classes for him as well as completing her own. Graduating as top of her class, she still got rejected by many law firms as her gender really made it hard for her to land a job at any firm available in New York as she struck out massively of reaching that focal point in her life of becoming a lawyer. She paves the way as she gains respect as a professor and takes on a case that’s being shown as gender discrimination which is something that she feels is an upside towards what she is being facing all her life and as a law professor, she’s clear legally to take on the case which would be her first ever. Alongside her husband, she comes along another case of gender discrimination in which she takes on to face the odds in both. As she always seen in herself, she beat the odds and was able to win both of the cases in which made way into many women seeing a change that has been accomplished by a person that’s a female. She made the impossible possible by doing everything that a man can do as a female and made it look as simple as it should’ve been for any woman to do what she did.
Doing what Ruth Ginsburg did is something that takes a lot of gut to withstand all the of the downsides that she faced growing up as a woman but so did the other woman in the world that had to live with that for many years. She’s as powerful as any human being can get, she stood up for her own equal rights and made it possible for the other people to reach that potential they wanted to be at in the future, whether it be a man or woman.
