The journey toward the Equal Rights Amendment began decades ago, but activists say the finish line is in sight IWD2019
Riding the wave that brought us the #MeToo movement, a growing field of women seeking a presidential nomination and more women in Congress than ever before, momentum for a long-sought-after milestone is rippling across the United States.
Bills are being introduced in state capitals to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, an addition to the Constitution that would explicitly protect women's rights and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, according to proponents. It was introduced to Congress in 1923, but the crusade didn't gain real traction until the women's movement took hold in the late '60s and early '70s.
The fight for women's rights 02:25Then there's this hypocrisy to consider, proponents add: The United States has pushed other nations -- including Afghanistan -- to protect women in their constitutions while not doing the same at home. And in their corner, they like to say, is an unlikely -- and perhaps unwitting -- ally: late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
And to cover all the bases, for the 12th time since she entered Congress in 1993, Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York sponsored a resolution to restart the ratification process altogether.It's a fight she and other stalwarts plan to keep on waging until they see the ERA in the US Constitution. "Shouldn't we eliminate any doubt that men and women are equal? Shouldn't equality be the default, the inalienable truth?" she asked in January."Now is the time.
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