A national commission established by Congress recently recommended that women be required to register with the Selective Service for any future military drafts. At the same time, the Trump administration is blocking certification of the ERA after the 38th and final state needed to ratify the Amendment voted to do so earlier this year.
Author: Carrie N. Baker
Carrie N. Baker, J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Her 2007 book The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment won the National Women’s Studies Association Sara A. Whaley Book Prize. Her second book, Fighting the U.S. Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics, tells the story of activism against youth involvement in the sex trade in the United States between 1970 and 2015. Baker is the President of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts.
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“Reports of the ERA’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” (Part 5)
We are in the final homestretch of the long-fought battle for the ERA—but the fate of the amendment rides on the fall elections.
This is the fifth in a six-part series examining the half-century fight to add women to the U.S. Constitution—and a game plan on where we go from here.
Part 5: Where We Go From Here
DeVos’s Campus Sexual Assault Regulations Are an “Abomination”
“Betsy DeVos and the Trump administration are dead set on making schools more dangerous for everyone.”
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“Reports of the ERA’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” (Part 4)
“If our rights are in the Constitution, they can’t be erased or rolled back by the changing political whims of legislators, judges or occupants of the White House.”
This is the fourth in a multi-part series examining the half-century fight to add women to the U.S. Constitution—and a game plan on where we go from here.
Part 4: From Addressing the Wage Gap to Combatting Violence Against Women, We Still Need an Equal Rights Amendment
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“Reports of the ERA’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” (Part 3)
“We are the only major democracy in the world with a written Constitution that does not have an equal rights amendment to protect equality between men and women. That’s a national embarrassment.”
This is the third in a multi-part series examining the half-century fight to add women to the U.S. Constitution—and a game plan on where we go from here.
PART 3: A Patchwork of Laws, Statutes and Court Rulings
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“Reports of the ERA’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” (Part 2)
“It was one hell of a fight. We marched, we picketed, we demonstrated. We had sit-ins. People were arrested. Some women went on hunger strikes. Every nonviolent protest that could be done was done.”
This is the second in a multi-part series examining the half-century fight to add women to the U.S. Constitution—and a game plan on where we go from here.
PART 2: A Long History of Obstruction, Delay and Trickery
The Stories Behind Twelve Significant Reproductive Rights and Justice Legal Cases
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