As such, the greatest legal protection afforded to women rests on the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth amendment. Today, there is no explicit acknowledgement of sex in the U.S. What the ERA Would Mean in the United States Though questions remain as to whether the time has run out- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has called for the ratification process to start over-one thing is clear: ratification of the ERA would incontrovertibly advance gender equality, both at home and abroad. Democratic state attorneys general in Illinois, Nevada, and Virginia filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to order David Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, to recognize the ERA’s ratification as the twenty-eighth amendment and have it irrevocably added to the Constitution. Trump administration toward implementation of the ERA.
Cardin (D-MD) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have agreed to propose similar measures.Ī number of prominent organizations have also joined the charge, filing amicus briefs to push the Donald J. Jackie Speier (D-CA), the House secured the extension, passing the issue along to the Senate, where Senators Benjamin L. In a successful resolution (232-to-183) proposed by Rep. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."įollowing Virginia’s ratification earlier this year, the House of Representatives moved swiftly to grant the amendment a new lease on life, by removing the previous 1982 deadline for ratification. The language of the amendment has not been altered since 1973 and reads simply: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. First drafted in 1923 by two leaders of the suffrage movement-Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman-the ERA was introduced in every session of Congress since, but little progress was made until the mid-1970s. America, ” starring Cate Blanchett as anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly, has highlighted (albeit insufficently) the decades-long debate surrounding the ERA, which seeks to constitutionally ensure equal rights between men and women on the basis of sex. With three-fourths of the states having ratified the proposed provision, Congress is imminently bound to legislate. In January, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the amendment, bringing the nation to a quorum on the issue of gender equality under the U.S.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is back in the headlines with new ferocity. Delphi Cleaveland is a former intern with the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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