In her first year, Rutgers offered RBG an annual contract to teach civil procedure. The salary was low. After all, Dean Willard Heckel reminded her, it was a state school, and she was a woman. “They told me, ‘We can’t pay you as much as A., who has five children; you have a husband who earns a good salary,” RBG remembered, discreetly withholding names. “I asked if B., a bachelor, was also paid more, and was told, ‘yes.’”
