“Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination, rationalized by an attitude of 'romantic paternalism' which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”

— William J. Brennan

Writing for the court, Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973).

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