those 24 words have been the subject of a longstanding battle to win women equal protection under the law. The proposed amendment is simple, but the fight to add the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA ...

It read in its entirety, “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by app ...

"In keeping with my oath and duty to the Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ... rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex." ...

Charlene Charmwakat Makai is the founder of Empower Her for Sustainable Development Initiative in Africa (Empower Her 4 ...

For several years, Representative Dotie Joseph and I have introduced legislation ... offer critical protections to women’s rights. For example, even though the Equal Pay Act has been ...

The Equal Rights Amendment ... based discrimination would have a clearer legal path to challenge discriminatory laws or policies. The United States has not achieved gender equality.

While the ERA originally debuted in the 1920s, it’s been so firmly etched into the cultural landscape of the 1970s that it competes with bell bottoms.