Ruth faced many obstacles such as discrimination. One example from the text is, "She was one of only nine women in a class of 600 law students in the late 1950s at Harvard." Being one of the nine women in Harvard is an amazing feat, yet it comes with discrimination. People will ask her, "why not be a housewife?" Another example from the text is, "In the 1970s, she was the director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She worked as a lawyer