March is Women's History Month

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was told she’d Never become a Lawyer. Nobody hired women. 

She was the second woman on the Supreme Court. She served as Justice from 1993-2020. 

Justice Ginsburg was once asked: “How many women would be enough on the Supreme Court?” Without missing a beat, she replied: “Nine.”

There’s a teacher named Jane Elliot. In 1968, the day after Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, her third grade students asked: “Why would anybody want to kill a king?” In order to teach her all-white elementary school students about discrimination, she separated them by eye color. The first day, Ms. Elliot told her students that people with brown eyes were superior to those with blue eyes.  Brown eyed people are smarter, and more civilized than those with blue eyes. The next day, those students with blue eyes were smarter, more civilized. 

As Ms. Elliot watched the experiment, she was horrified at what she saw. The students started to internalize and accept the characteristics they’d been arbitrarily assigned based on the color of their eyes.