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Bookmark or Share- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) - Encyclopedia BritannicaEqual Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women; its central underlying principle is that sex should not determine the legal rights of men or women.
- What is the ERA? Push to add amendment to the Constitution failsPush to add amendment to the Constitution fails. The Senate's latest effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment failed Thursday – 100 years after it was first introduced to Congress.
- Why - Equal Rights AmendmentThe reasons why we need the ERA are at one level philosophical and symbolic, and at another level very specific and practical. The first — and still the only — right that the U.S. Constitution specifically affirms equally for women and men is the right to vote.
- Equal Rights Amendment - WikipediaThe Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It was written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and first introduced in Congress in December 1923.
- The ERA Has Been Ratified, Declares New Congressional ResolutionOn Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) introduced a joint resolution to affirm the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), removing the arbitrary deadline for ratification and recognizing the amendment as part of the Constitution.
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