Like Wiesenfeld and Goldfarb, the challengers in the Craig case were men.
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New York Times article about the Wiesenfeld case, which refers to Ginsburg as‘a woman lawyer.'.
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The Supreme Court gave Wiesenfeld and Ginsburg a win in 1975,
unanimously ruling that sex-based distinction unconstitutional.
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Ginsburg represented widower Stephen Wiesenfeld in challenging a Social Security Act provision
that provided parental benefits only to widows with minor children.
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Wiesenfeld's wife had died in childbirth,
so he was denied benefits even though he faced all of the challenges of single parenthood that a mother would have faced.