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The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) already exists…right? You may think that, surely, gender equality across the board in America not only at the voting booth is already a ratified amendment of the ...
What will happen with the Equal Rights Amendment under Trump? After a decades-long fight, Biden signed the 28th amendment into law before leaving office. Under Trump, advocates say that state ERAs ...
Virginia is poised to become the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, now that Democrats in the legislature hold ...
President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely to alter a ...
In a post a year ago, I highlighted the highly dubious claim by supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment that the amendment remained ripe for ratification and that it was only one state short of ...
In America, the Equal Rights Amendment -- an amendment from 1972 that states people "shall not be denied or abridged" equal rights on account of their sex -- is very, very close to being passed.
Ironically, the very same amendment that was written to ensure equal rights for African Americans now provides a mechanism to make them second-class citizens. In many states, tens of thousands of ...
In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...