Banning workplace discrimination against pregnant women, ensuring state-funded schools admit women... Here are 4 times RBG helped achieved equal rights for women ... and men.
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00:00In my long life, I have seen great changes.
00:30All that legislation, and there was a lot of it, like maternity leave.
00:48It said that it's unsafe for you to be working when you're pregnant,
00:53so we take away your job and we send you home.
00:57There was a lot of legislation that the legislatures did,
01:02and it turned out not to be protective.
01:27Probate judge said, the law tells me what to do.
01:50It says, as between persons equally entitled to administer a decedent's estate,
01:59males must be preferred to females.
02:50It says, as between persons equally entitled to administer a decedent's estate,
03:15It's an enormous help that Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
03:35and included in the famous Title VII, sex as a category.
03:40Discrimination was prohibited on the basis of that category,
03:47just as race, religion, and national origin.
03:51Discrimination didn't end with the explicit lines in the law.
03:56Some of it went underground, but a lot of it was not even conscious.
04:02It's what the term is, unconscious bias.
04:32There were no benefits under the statute for a father who wanted to care personally for his child.
04:52Those benefits ran only to a mother.
04:55Well, the Supreme Court in 1975 returned a unanimous judgment,
05:14effectively converting what had been a mother's benefit into a parent's benefit.
05:25It's what the Supreme Court in 1975 returned a unanimous judgment,
05:35effectively converting what had been a mother's benefit into a parent's benefit.
05:45It's what the Supreme Court in 1975 returned a unanimous judgment,
05:55effectively converting what had been a mother's benefit into a parent's benefit.
06:05It's what the Supreme Court in 1975 returned a unanimous judgment,
06:15effectively converting what had been a mother's benefit into a parent's benefit.
06:25It's what the Supreme Court in 1975 returned a unanimous judgment,
06:33effectively converting what had been a mother's benefit into a parent's benefit.
06:43It's what the Supreme Court in 1975 returned a unanimous judgment,