Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. The congressional approval came with a seven-year deadline for states to sign onto the law as a constitutional amendment, but it wasn’t ...

In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...

Ironically, the very same amendment that was written to ensure equal rights for African Americans now provides a mechanism to make them second-class citizens. In many states, tens of thousands of ...

“The Equal Rights Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with abortion,” insisted Representative Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) in an April 2019 Judiciary Committee hearing. Maloney has been the ...

Critics have accused the government of overseeing restrictions on women’s rights and not doing enough ... for better access to gender-specific health care, equal pay and other issues in which ...

Critics have accused the government of overseeing restrictions on women’s rights and not doing enough ... for better access to gender-specific health care, equal pay and other issues in which ...