New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says at a news conference an hour after President Joe Biden issued a statement of his belief that the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution is ...

President Joe Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, should be considered ratified and part of the U.S. Constitution.

Charles Curtis, a Kansas Republican. Paul's original amendment text stated: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

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.

The ERA is a 1970s-era prohibition on discrimination based on gender, guaranteeing men and women equal rights under the law.