June62010
Kagan's Nomination Is the Sweet Smell of Progress »
“If she is confirmed, we will be one step closer to the day when a female nominee’s gender is no longer remarkable, closer to that elusive cultural tipping point when it is no longer unusual to see women on the Supreme Court or in other positions of significant power. If three women are serving on the nation’s highest tribunal, perhaps the gender of the fourth female justice won’t be a focal point….
We’re still a long way from that day, but we’re a lot closer to it than when I started working to fight sex discrimination more than three decades ago.”
