[Editor's Note: The following excerpts are taken from a document called "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law," written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Feigen Fasteau as a report of the Columbia Law School Equal Rights Advocacy Project in September 1974. Links to download the report -- either specific pages or the entire document -- appear below.]

Cover

 Excerpt from "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Cover Only [PDF format, 11 kb]

1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Prostitution:

 Excerpt from "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - p72 [PDF format, 45 kb]

2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Segregating Prisoners by Sex

 Excerpt from "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - p75 [PDF format, 30 kb]

3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Rights of Bigamists

 Excerpt from "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - pp190-1 [PDF format, 48 kb]

4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Boy Scouts

 Excerpt from "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - p131 [PDF format, 45 kb]

5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Mother's Day and Father's Day

 Excerpt from "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg - p133 [PDF format, 28 kb]

COMPLETE REPORT

Click below to download the entire document. Please note: it is a large file and will take some time to download.

 Complete text of "The Legal Status of Women under Federal Law" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
[PDF format, 7 megabytes]