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In the 1970s and 1980s, activists used buttons like these to signal their support or opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The proposed amendment's first section was short enough to fit on a button: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." After the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, women’s rights advocate Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party quickly transitioned to writing and lobbying for an amendment that would guarantee equal rights for all Americans, regardless of sex.
Although a version of this amendment—the ERA—was introduced at almost every session of Congress, until the 1970s most variations stalled in committees. That decade, Representative Martha Griffiths successfully petitioned to move the amendment to debate before the full Congress. In 1972 the ERA passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ratification. Groups on both sides of the issue mobilized to lobby for and against the amendment.
The ERA failed to meet the required number of state ratifications (only obtaining 35 of the necessary 38) by Congress’ deadline of June 30, 1982. In recent years, popular interest in the ERA has revived after two states, Nevada and Illinois, voted to ratify the amendment.
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lemon_myers_art I have tried to teach my adult children that women still do not have equal rights to men, which is why I have always been told in my government jobs that I must make less than my male counterparts. My children & their friends have laughed for decades that women have equal rights. I have told them that the right to vote is not the same as equality across the board. Unfortunately, schools are teaching erroneously that women have equal rights. Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Michele Obama, Laura Bush, et al, for not making this a priority for their gender to have equal rights in the “most free country in the world”. I feel duped by all the smoke & mirrors.

hintzleah What exactly does ERA amendment mean as far as today’s society is concerned? If the amendment means today as it was written 1920, why revise, why not enforce what was originally written for all in 1920 for 2019? I think this is where today’s problems are, the lack of enforcement of written laws. What is the point of having laws & rules to begin with to protect ALL United States Citizens if the Federal as well as individual State Governments are refusing to enforce them?

jclare62 I remember being told as a teen in the 70s that if the ERA passed, I would be forced to be eligible for the draft. Scared the crap outta me!

bruingirl2001 You have Alice Paul’s ERA bracelet in your collection, right? I think I remember seeing it on display once.

__saswata_gupta__ Any person in their right mind would not debate about equality of opportunity or of rights among the sexes.

dixie_lee_3 Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest these, it might have been.

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