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.
Tag: Equal Rights Amendment
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Reports of the ERA’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” (Part 1)
This is the first 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. Check back every Wednesday for a new installment.
PART 1: “We Want In!”
States of Feminist Resistance: Women Legislators Make A Difference
Contributions of Democratic women state legislators show that women are more motivated by communal goals than political power; that women do politics backward and in high heels; and women spur each other on.
Today in Feminist History: (March 22, 1972)
Full legal equality for women and men, once considered among the most radical of ideas, has now received the overwhelming endorsement of both houses of Congress in the form of an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution!
Today in Feminist History: The ERA Makes it to the Senate (March 21, 1938)
There is jubilation today among Equal Rights Amendment supporters, because after an almost 15-year struggle, the E.R.A. has been reported to a branch of Congress for the first time.
Do Women Still Need the Equal Rights Amendment? Yes. Here’s Why.
Do we still need the ERA? Yes. Equality at work is a key component of freedom, and we deserve it. So, write your legislators, agitate, and—most importantly—vote. We cannot afford further erosion of our rights as women.