Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that the #MeToo movement is here to stay and symbolizes a monumentous shift in American culture.

'It's too widespread,' Ginsburg said during a televised interview at Columbia University Sunday.

'It's amazing that for the first time, women are really listened to because sexual harassment had often been dismissed as 'well, she made it up,'' she added.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Pictured) said that the ant-sexual harassment movement in America is here to stay

Ginsburg was asked if now was the time for Congress to craft new legislation to help protect women from ill-treatment in society and the work place

Speaking with CNN's Poppy Harlow, Ginsburg was asked if now was the time for Congress to craft new legislation to help protect women from ill-treatment in society and the work place.

'This Congress is not ... I mean it's been very hard even to keep the government going lately,' she said to laughter.

'My hope is that Congress will think about people -- where the United States population now is, and I am putting my faith in the millennials,' Ginsburg added.

The #MeToo movement spread virally over social media platforms in October 2017 as a way top help demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual harassment, especially at the work place.

Topics such as sexism during the 2016 presidential campaign, attacks on the judiciary, the First Amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment and even blindspots on the current court were also explored during the hour-long conversation with the 84-year-old.

A police officer stands guard on the steps of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, June 15, 2017

'I think it was difficult for Hillary Clinton to get by, in the macho atmosphere prevailing during that campaign ... And she was criticized in a way I think no man would have been criticized,' she said of the 2016 presidential campaign.

'Sexism played a prominent part,' Ginsburg said but emphasized that she thought the country was ready its first female president and 'will be the next time.'

'We should be careful about not getting me too much in the political arena,' she added after a brief pause to laughter.

The #MeToo movement is 'too widespread,' Ginsburg said during a televised interview at Columbia University (pictured) Sunday

Ginsburg later stated during the conversation that she hopes that an Equal Rights Amendment will be added to the constitution in order to enshrine in law a standard parity between the sexes.

'Equal stature of men and women is as fundamental as the basic human rights,' she said.

She said that while 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, 'every Constitution in the world written since the year 1950 has the equivalent statement that men and women are people of equal citizenship stature.'

'I would like to be able to take out that pocket constitution and say to [my granddaughters]: "You see this statement of the equal stature of men and women is as fundamental as the basic human rights. The right to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the equal stature of men and women.'''