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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 ...
Sensible Americans consider the Equal Rights Amendment a long-dead relic, but its supporters, incredibly, are still trying to revive it. Congress proposed the ERA in March 1972, and it expired ...
But while Ledbetter’s contributions toward the fight for equal pay are immortalized with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (which essentially states that each unfair paycheck starts a new ...
The Equal Rights Amendment, which would outlaw discrimination based on sex, is on the brink of being ratified by enough states to be added to the Constitution. Is it still needed today, several ...
In 1918, Congress passed a law to set minimum wages for women and children in the District of Columbia.As in other cases, the question was one of balancing the police power of Congress to regulate working and living conditions with the right of individuals to conduct their own affairs without legislative interference.
Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, addresses the duty that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state".
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 ...
Equal Justice Under Law (civil rights organization) Human rights, when such rights are held in common by all people; Civil rights, when such rights are held in common by all citizens of a nation; Rights guaranteed under gender equality, proposed variously: by the women's rights movement growing out of women's suffrage