Since her early age Ruth was dedicated to excelling scholastically (Wallace 2022, 2-3). She graduated from James Madison High School, and she attended Cornell University, where she majored in government. Ruth Bader continued her education at Harvard University, where she was one of nine women in a class of five hundred people (Nunez 2021, 137). Ruth's job search was not very easy: she interviewed with several companies and was never successful. Law firms believed she might feel uncomfortable working in an only male environment (Wallace 2022, 10). This was probably due to the prejudices of the time, as Ruth stated “When I graduated from Columbia Law School in 1959, not a law firm in the entire city of New York would employ me. I struck out on three grounds: I was Jewish, a woman, and a mother” (qtd. in Wallace 2022, 10). In 1962, Ruth started working with Hans Smit, who was the founder of Columbia Law School’s Project on International Procedure. Thanks to that role, she moved to Sweden with her family for two years. In Sweden she saw the progress that was made regarding the demolishment of women’s roles stereotypes, which influenced her future experience and desire (Wallace 2022,