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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 ...
Proposition 1 will codify abortion rights in the state constitution and expand protections against discrimination based on race, religion and gender. With about 30% of the votes counted in New Yor
Voters in the 2024 election would need to approve the amendment for it to become final. Democrats in New York have hoped putting an issue related to abortion on the ballot might spur voter turnout.
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is making an all-out push in the waning days of the Biden administration that she believes could bolster reproductive rights, calling on President Joe Biden to ...
In California, women won the right to serve on juries four years after passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In Colorado, it took 33 years. Women continue to face obstacles when running for elective offices, and the Equal Rights Amendment, which would grant women equal rights under the law, has yet to be passed. [123] [124] [125] [126]
This version of the amendment 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. [2] The vote is 84 in favor and 8 opposed. A deadline is set that it must by ratified by the required 38 states within the next seven years. [3] March 22, 1972 – Hawaii ratifies the ERA. [4]
A coalition of 16 voting rights groups, including the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Fair Maps Wisconsin and the League of Women Voters, urged voters to choose “no” on both referendums.
The demand for women's suffrage grew out of the broader movement for women's rights, which began to emerge in the U.S. in the early 1800s. There was little demand for the right to vote in the movement's early days, when the focus was on such issues as the right of women to speak in public settings and on property rights for married women.