When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg met author Margaret Atwood in the summer of 2018, they disagreed on the future of the MeToo movement
descended the grand staircase of a Colonial mansion in a blue pantsuit and shawl. It was the summer of 2018, and the justice had invited my wife,and I to spend the weekend with her at the Glimmerglass opera festival in Cooperstown, New York. She greeted us warmly, and we piled into an SUV to see a lecture byIn the question and answer session, Atwood argued there had been three explosions of feminism in the 20th century. The first culminated in the passage of the 19th Amendment.
After the lecture, Ginsburg cordially greeted Atwood in the greenroom, but expressed a different view about the future of #MeToo. “I don’t think there will be a successful backlash this time,” she said.I wanted to say in the talk that’s the first time we’ve seen this 17th-century talk of the female witch character.”
Ginsburg was more optimistic. “Women now represent over 50% of law school classes and of undergraduates as well,” she replied. “As women are represented in numerical majorities in positions of authority, enough of them will care about their sisters—they will not allow the progress to be reversed.” At dinner on the grounds of the opera house the next evening, Justice Ginsburg offered her thoughts about due process and the #MeToo movement, and said she was “skeptically hopeful” about the future of the Supreme Court in the wake of the retirement of JusticeIf Margaret Atwood was right to say we’re now in a third feminist movement, what legal victories should follow from it?One is giving a woman an opportunity while raising children to have a flexible schedule at work.
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