USA Today reveals the loneliness of being the only woman on the US Supreme Court.
Joan Biskupic writes (excerpt):
For now, O’Connor’s absence is more symbolic. In court, the sight of Ginsburg — a slight figure in a tall, black leather chair, flanked by eight men — contrasts with the rising prominence of women in Congress. The number of female judges also is rising: Of the 875 federal judges, 201 are women.
Ginsburg is encouraged by such numbers, but disconcerted by the look of her own court. She said with O’Connor, the message was: “Here are two women. They don’t look alike. They don’t always vote alike. But here are two women.” The former women’s rights lawyer fears the message now is that a woman justice is a “one-at-a-time curiosity, not the normal thing.”