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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s historic gender discrimination suit win in 1975

RBG represented Stephen Wiesenfeld whose wife died in childbirth in 1972; he was not allowed to receive Social Security survivor benefits which, at the time, was only designated for women to receive.

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