Thirty-four years later, at her confirmation hearing for the US Supreme Court, Ginsburg remembered the "many indignities" — instances of gender bias — that she'd faced during law school. Ginsburg, who passed away this month, was only one of a few women in her class, and at a dinner with the dean of the law school, they were asked to justify taking the place of a male applicant.
According to federal government policy, women do not need their spouse's consent to have their tubes tied, though that was a requirement decades ago. In 1974 states like Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia required spousal consent for procedures, but by the end of the 1970s, the requirement had been challenged by a handful of court cases, and federal courts ruled state spousal consent laws unconstitutional – though the Supreme Court has never issued a judgment on the matter, so it isn't completely resolved.