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In this op-ed, Kate Kelly, a human rights attorney at Equality Now, explains why the United States Constitution needs an Equal Rights Amendment. Though the robust national fight for ratification ...
Three states urged a federal judge Thursday to declare that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment is now part of the U.S. Constitution, after Virginia this week became the 38th state to ratify it.
President Joe Biden on Friday asserted that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing it had met the criteria to be ...
President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing it had met the criteria to be the 28th Amendment.
The fight for an Equal Rights Amendment started back in 1868, was first officially proposed in 1923, and 100 years later, is still not the law of the land.
The Equal Rights Amendment moved a step closer to becoming part of the United States Constitution this week as Illinois became the 37th state to ratify the provision nearly a century after it was ...
WASHINGTON—The last three states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment sued the Trump administration Thursday, seeking a court order that would write women’s equality into the Constitution. The ...
Fourth, Equal Rights Amendment activists like to point out that the 27th Amendment, the most recent addition to the Constitution, was proposed in 1789 but not finally ratified until May 1992.
The House voted to eliminate the nearly forty-year-old deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would explicitly provide women with equal rights under the Constitution. Virginia ...
As of last week, the Constitution was supposed to include the Equal Rights Amendment saying women have equal rights as men — but a 40-year-old deadline stands in its way.