Part One: Scrutiny (1970-1975)

Chapter 1:
The Story of Paula Wiesenfeld

Late in 1972 a new professor at Columbia Law School, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, heard the story of Paula and Stephen Wiesenfeld.  Immediately she knew that their sad tale offered the legal case she needed.  By taking their story to the Supreme Court of the United States, she could accomplish her greatest professional goal:  to eliminate what she called "gender lines in the law."  Ginsburg in the early 1970s was making the most profound attack on sexist law in the history of the American legal system. 

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[This is the opening of Part One of Fred Strebeigh, Equal: Women Reshape American Law (W. W. Norton, 2009), listed in the Norton catalog and also at Amazon.com.]