an ideal of different treatment may reinforce sexist stereotypes. In 1988, prior to serving as a Justice of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote: "Generalizations about the way women or men are – my life experience bears out – cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals. At least in the law, I have found no natural superiority or deficiency in either sex. In class or in grading papers from 1963 to 1980, and now in reading briefs and listening to arguments in court for over seventeen years, I have detected no reliable indicator or distinctly male or surely female thinking – even penmanship". In an American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project in the 1970s, Ginsburg challenged in Frontiero v. Richardson the laws that gave health service benefits to wives of servicemen, but not to husbands of servicewomen. There are over 150 national constitutions that currently mention equality regardless of gender. See also Anti-discrimination law Civil and political rights Equal justice under law Equality of opportunity Global justice Isonomia Law of equal liberty Meritocracy Prerogative, the inverse of equality before the law Rule according to higher law Rule of law Social equality List of civil rights leaders List of suffragists and suffragettes List of women's rights activists Völkisch equality References Further reading Hudson, Adelbert Lathrop (1913). "Equality Before the Law". The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. CXII. pp. 679–688. Shenfield, Arthur A. (1973). "Equality Before the Law". Modern Age. Vol. XVII. No. 2, pp. 114–124. Egalitarianism Political theories Political science terminology Western culture