The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It was...
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2024 New York Proposal 1 (redirect from New York Equal Rights Amendment)
Also informally known as the Equal Rights Amendment, it includes several rights in the New York State Constitution's Equal Protection Clause with its chief...
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States have passed state equal rights amendments (ERAs) to their constitutions that provide various degrees of legal protection against discrimination...
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The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in...
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§ Limitations). Shortly after the amendment's adoption, Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party began work on the Equal Rights Amendment, which they believed was...
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The Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment is a congressional caucus affiliated with the Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives...
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Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response...
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The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have given the District of Columbia...
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From the 1960s through the 1980s, proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) were seeking ratification in each state throughout the United States....
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the Equal Rights Amendment took place on July 9, 1978 in Washington, DC. Over 100,000 people marched for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. There...
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movement Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that intended to advance such a condition for women's rights Law of equal liberty...
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Alice Paul (category Equal Rights Amendment)
half-century as leader of the National Woman's Party, which fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, written by Paul and Crystal Eastman, to secure constitutional equality...
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Martha Griffiths (category Equal Rights Amendment)
During her time in Congress, Griffiths sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment, one of 33 proposed amendments to pass in Congress and be sent to the states for...
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Birch Bayh (section Equal Rights Amendment)
authored more than one constitutional amendment. Bayh also led unsuccessful efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and eliminate the United States Electoral...
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Anne L. Armstrong (category Equal Rights Amendment activists)
Texas's 19th congressional district. Armstrong was a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In 1971, Armstrong was quoted as saying, "I feel like it...
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the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, antifeminist organizations run by conservative women mobilized to oppose the amendment. The ERA, stating that...
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twenty-seventh amendment was null and void."). Stracqualursi, Veronica (January 30, 2020). "Three Democratic attorneys general sue to have Equal Rights Amendment added...
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Jennings Randolph (section Equal Rights Amendment)
petition for the Equal Rights Amendment. Randolph derided the protesters as "braless bubbleheads" and claimed that the equal rights activists did not...
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Phyllis Schlafly (redirect from Homemakers' Equal Rights Association)
political views, opposed feminism, gay rights, and abortion, and campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. More...
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connection between the 27th Amendment and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment Gregory Watson's Fight for the 27th Amendment (The Daily Show, interview...
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Caucus (Equal Rights Amendment Caucus) was formed March 28, 2023, by representatives Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush to affirm the Equal Rights Amendment as...
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Article Five of the United States Constitution (section Constitutional clauses shielded from amendment)
ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment. The vote of each state (to either ratify or reject a proposed amendment) carries equal weight, regardless of a state's...
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Jill Ruckelshaus (category Equal Rights Amendment activists)
leading Republican advocate for feminist policies, such as the Equal Rights Amendment and women's reproductive choice, during the peak of political influence...
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Rosalynn Carter (section Equal Rights Amendment)
Mansion. Governor Carter once claimed that he had supported the Equal Rights Amendment while his wife was opposed to the measure; the First Lady privately...
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2022 Nevada elections (section Equal Rights Amendment)
Review-Journal. "Nevada Equal Rights Amendment (2022)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved March 2, 2021. Russell, Terri (March 26, 2021). "Equal Rights Amendment to appear on...
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National Woman's Party (category Equal Rights Amendment)
of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment. The most prominent...
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Antifeminism (redirect from Opposition to women's rights)
communism. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a perennially proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would grant equal rights and opportunities...
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Liberal feminism (section Equal Rights Amendment)
supports the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive rights including freer access to abortion, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights (LGBT...
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the Yale Law Journal. This proposal is an updated version of the Equal Rights Amendment written by Alice Paul from the National Women's Party, which was...
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delegates at the conference and included provisions around the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights, child care, and sexual orientation. The committee was...
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