--- description: Carmon is a journalist and author of the best-selling book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Irin Carmon ## Irin Carmon Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Carmon is a journalist and author of the best-selling book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg_ ## Irin Carmon Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Sep 27, 2018 ### [Can American Men and Women Ever Really Be Equal?](https://time.com/5406932/gender-equality-america/) [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/irin-carmon/","name":"Irin Carmon"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/irin-carmon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/irin-carmon/"},"name":"Irin Carmon","jobTitle":null,"description":"Carmon is a journalist and author of the best-selling book Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg","url":"https://time.com/author/irin-carmon/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```