"Dispiriting as they may be to [young] people, for me [the numbers] are exhilarating. Progress comes slowly, and I know that people your age tend to be impatient, but there’s been an enormous change that’s occurred in my lifetime."

— Ruth Bader Ginsbug, speaking to a class of Georgetown law students about numbers showing that just 18 percent of lawyers arguing before the Supreme Court this term were women. Agree or disagree: are young women impatient?

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