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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 ...
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first proposed in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul as an amendment to the United States Constitution to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. It was passed by the House of Representatives in 1971 and the Senate in 1972.
The U.S. Senate blocked the Equal Rights Amendment from being ratified into law in 2023, a century after it was introduced, with a 51-47 vote in favor, nine votes shy of the 60 needed to clear the ...
The U.S. Senate blocked the Equal Rights Amendment from being ratified into law in 2023, a century after it was introduced, with a 51-47 vote in favor, nine votes shy of the 60 needed to clear the ...
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. The ERA, if formally recognized as the 28th Amendment, would make gender equality explicit under the Constitution.
Separately, CNN has previously reported that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York made a last-minute push to convince Biden to certify an Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment. The amendment ...
During Kelly's legal career, she has worked for many different human rights and advocacy organizations. She is the host of the podcast Ordinary Equality on the Wonder Media Network, [13] and the author of Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Helped Shape the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment (Gibbs Smith, 2022). [14]
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 ...