With just days left in office, President Biden has said the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.
President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has ...
President Joe Biden declared on Friday that he was making the Equal Rights Amendment official. “It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people,” he said in his announcement ( via ...
The ERA was introduced by suffragists in the 1920s and passed by Congress in 1972. But it wasn’t fully ratified, thanks to the activism of prominent anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, and has remained in ...
but momentum slowed when an anti-ERA campaign, led by Phyllis Schlafly, accused the ERA of rebuking the traditional role of women as homemakers. Ratification faced another hurdle: the preface of ...
President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as ...
President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees equal protections regardless of sex, is the “law of the land” but stopped short of ordering the U ...