Women’s Equality

House Approves Resolution Removing The Deadline For Ratifying The Equal Rights Amendment; Reauthorizes The Violence Against Women Act

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The Hill reports, House removes deadline for ratifying ERA: The House on Wednesday adopted H.J.Res 17, a resolution to remove the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to formally ban discrimination on the basis of sex as one of Democrats’ top legislative priorities. Lawmakers passed the resolution largely along party lines, 222-204, to … Read more

Bipartisan Legislation For Ratification Of The Equal Rights Amendment

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Above: First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Betty Ford campaigning together at a 1984 ERA rally at the Lincoln Memorial. The Huffington Post reports, 2021 Could Be The Year Women Get Full Constitutional Rights: With Donald Trump out of the White House and Sen. Mitch McConnell no longer controlling the Senate, two substantial roadblocks for the … Read more

Virginia will pass the ERA in 2020, then the legal games will begin

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Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure, they are already making plans for how they will celebrate. The Associated Press reports, Lawmakers pledge ERA will pass in Virginia. Then what? In Virginia, the ERA’s future is … Read more