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The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It was written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and first introduced in Congress in December 1923.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote. 1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced. It says, "Men and ...
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage.After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment.
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, reads that, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” ...
The would-be Constitutional amendment has faced an uphill battle right from the start—and the fight still continues today. Why the Equal Rights Amendment Still Hasn't Been Adopted, Nearly a ...
She was a strong supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote across the U.S. in 1920. After it passed, she supported the Equal Rights Amendment, which was submitted to Congress in 1921 but has still not been ratified into law. [5]
Congress sent the amendment, which guarantees men and women equal rights under the law, to the states in 1972. It gave states seven years to ratify it, later extending the deadline to 1982.