Notably, the factors that come together to allow courts to play an important role in civil rights policy and SSM policy have not been consistently present in the area of women's rights. Women's rights activists sought to use the courts in the same way that the NAACP used the courts to advance civil rights issues (Rosenberg 2008), choosing this route because, like SSM advocates, advocates of civil rights and environmental advocates, had become frustrated and disillusioned. with “legislative unresponsiveness” (Keck 2014, 173). Therefore, the first condition for creating a successful policy existed; Interest groups promoting women's rights have sought to use the courts as a mechanism to create policy in a given context