Some, like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, worked to change these standards by fighting towards positions of power using the excuse of bettering herself for a man: “‘Why are you here occupying a seat that could [by which he implied should] be held by a man?’...She answered in terms a man of Griswold’s position could understand, saying that her husband was in the second year at Harvard Law, and she wanted to understand his work -- that is, she justified her advance in terms of better serving a man” (Wills). The relation between this article and the theme of society placing harmful roles on women is shown when Wills writes of the classes women were directed towards in high school and college: “Even women with high school or college diplomas were regularly educated to be homemakers, steered into home economics classes instead of ‘hard’ math or science.If women had more education or wider experiences, they were treated as intruders into areas not ‘natural’ for them”
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