A RUTH BADER GINSBURG SWEDISH COCKTAIL SHAKER.Pewter cocktail shaker with fitted lid by Svenskt Tenn, c.1954, 186 x 95 mm (dia). At the conclusion of her clerk under Judge Edmund L. Palmieri, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was unable to land a job with any of the "white shoe" law firms in New York City. Despite her impeccable qualifications, no law firm would hire her because she was a woman and a mother. Frustrated, she decided to accept a fellow that allowed her to travel to Sweden to study Civil Procedure in that country. During her time in Sweden, her eyes were opened to the possibilities for gender equality which had eluded her in America. Sweden's push for equality in the workplace had moved well beyond whether or not to allow women in the workplace to a question of how roles at home should adjust to the new normal. Ginsburg was astonished to find a debate raging in the press regarding the unfairness of working women carrying two jobs—that of parent and employee—while men did not, a debate that would not happen in the United States for at least another decade or two. This pewter cocktail shaker, whose markings date it to 1954, may have been a souvenir picked up by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Sweden for Marty back in New York: the family is very clear that maintaining the bar was Marty's province, not Ruth's. None