NOW and our many allies will work hard for passage of this crucially important legislation. With so many efforts by conservatives to turn back the clock on women’s rights, guaranteeing women’s equal rights in the U.S. Constitution is essential.
Workplaces aren’t always safe or comfortable environments for women, and women’s concerns aren’t always taken seriously. Sexual harassment may have a name, but we don’t always recognize it.
Kaili Joy Gray writes at The Daily Kos: “This week, Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez introduced S.J.RES.10: ‘A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women.'”
This report examines the legislative history of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and both identifies and provides an analysis of contemporary factors that may bear on its present and future viability.
Katha Pollitt of The Nation writes: “Of course the ERA won’t mandate equal representation in Congress or anywhere else, but the very fact that it evokes the possibility is what’s exciting about it. The ERA would switch the paradigm from how much equality…
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