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Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn't solve sexism in America. But she died trying

‘We’ve retained her legacy – the opportunities she created, the legal rights she fought for, and the norms she changed.’ Photograph: Steven Senne/AP

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday was gutting, especially for American feminists. Even before her death, Ginsburg was not just a supreme court justice; she was a feminist icon, the Notorious RBG. She represented the kind of path to influence and power that today’s young women can imagine emulating, succeeding because of her own hard work, her meticulousness, and her intelligence (and, it should be said, to her excellent decision to marry a man who saw her as his intellectual and professional equal). She wasn’t on a soapbox with a

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