A comment on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's bio

In doing research for a better understanding of judicial confirmation precedents (for the upcoming likely donnybrook over Judge John Roberts' confirmation), I ran across an interesting tidbit about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At least, the presumptuous allusion in the biography is interesting (courtesy of Jewish Virtual Library.org) :

"After earning her B.A. degree in government, in 1954, she married Martin D. Ginsburg, who had graduated Cornell the year before. He was called for military service the same year and they lived at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for two years. It was during this period that Ruth Ginsburg experienced sex discrimination.
She applied for a job with the local social security office while she was pregnant. She was appointed to a position and when she told them that she was pregnant, they demoted her three levels in pay. Another woman, who was appointed and never told them of her pregnancy, received no demotion in the pay scale." (emphasis added)

That's not sex discrimination. It's not gender bias. It's not disability discrimination, either.
Her reduced pay was a consequence, however shortsighted or provincial, of her predictable upcoming absence or even potential resignation. This was the mid 1950's fercryin'outloud! When motherhood was still esteemed and honored. When our society rightly understood the vital contribution, to all of posterity, that full-time mothering made to the fabric of our culture. Motherhood didn't begin being denigrated by feminists until several years later.

Given the "enlightened" perspective with which liberals like to label their living/breathing and diverse and always evolving interpretation of the Constitution as an expression of our nation's values at any given moment in time, their rejection of the social norms of that era seems rather ungracious and intolerant, does it not?

Brad