We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment
We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution. We the Women tells their stories, showing…
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We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment
Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution. We the Women tells their stories, showing what's at stake in the current battle for the Equal Rights Amendment.The year 2020 marks the centennial the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women's constitutional right to vote. She stood on the shoulders of brilliant women who persisted across generations to change the Constitution.
Congress took almost fifty years to adopt it in 1972, and the states took almost as long to ratify it. But have we come far enough?After passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, revolutionary women demanded full equality beyond suffrage, by proposing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In January 2020, Virginia became the final state needed to ratify the amendment.Why did the ERA take so long?
Is it too late to add it to the Constitution? And what
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