Après Ginsburg, Le Déluge

The year is 1993. It’s August, and Bill Clinton has been president for less than a year. During the 1992 campaign, his partner Hillary was facing a sexist public reckoning: was she enough of a wife and mother? After all, she had kept her name throughout her tenure as First Lady of Arkansas and defended her decision to keep outside employment rather than stay at home baking cookies. Remember, this was almost three decades ago, when working women were still regarded with a fair bit of suspicion and Family Circle (then still in circulation) ran a quadrennial cookie recipe contest for potential First and Second Ladies of the United States.