A pioneer for women's rights and a prominent pop culture icon in a striking white collar, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is best known for her work on the bench; her fiery dissents and scathing arguments are legendary. Ginsburg's legal work in the 1970s marked a major advancement for women's rights, driven by the novel legal strategy she developed to systematically dismantle societal gender roles. As a practicing lawyer in the mid-twentieth century, Ginsburg recognized the American legal precedents which pushed women into caregiver roles and erected roadblocks to the workplace. Similarly, educational and social norms were structured to encourage women and men to occupy traditional roles. Despite legal and societal pressure, some women were able to persevere through the challenges and claim paychecks, although smaller ones than their male counterparts. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's strategy of challenging laws unfair to both men and women and then using those precedents to argue against laws explicitly unfair to women was a novel idea that yielded long overdue results.