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The Equal Rights Amendment, which reads, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex", was first introduced to Congress in 1923 and successfully passed both houses of Congress in 1972.
Approaching the issue of women’s rights from a practical and common-sense perspective that puts America first is beautifully aligned with America’s new direction under President Trump.
President Trump’s Justice Department on Friday abandoned the Biden administration’s Supreme Court challenge to gender-affirming care bans for minors, but the new administration urged the ...
What started as a small-scale fight has turned into a major win for the 'Free the Nipple' movement, a global gender equality campaign that emphasizes women's rights to choose how they display ...
NOW is regarded as one of the main liberal feminist organizations in the US, and primarily lobbies for gender equality within the existing political system. [7] NOW campaigns for constitutional equality, [8] economic justice, [9] reproductive rights, [10] LGBTQIA+ rights [11] and racial justice, [12] and against violence against women. [13]
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin." [173] [non-primary source needed] Due to a lawsuit brought on behalf of Maria Pepe by the National Organization for Women, the New Jersey Superior Court decides that Little League Baseball must allow girls to ...
Because of the many divisions within the feminist movement on the topic of sex work, big organizations like NOW preferred to focus on more universal women's rights issues such as abortion. [72] While still controversial, reproductive rights are much less nuanced and leave feminists divided into just two or so divisions, instead of many.
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...