Equal Rights Amendment
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How to use Equal Rights Amendment in a sentence
The chief sponsor of a House bill to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment, Carroll Foy has been outspoken on issues of gender, criminal justice reform, workers and the environment.
What to know about the 2021 Virginia governor’s race | Laura Vozzella | April 8, 2021 | Washington PostBut in the short run, all the things that women wanted, Equal Rights Amendment, equal pay, he was never opposed to any of those.
Murder, Sex, and the Writing Life: Norman Mailer’s Biography | Ronald K. Fried | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe strongly backed abortion rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.
I remain committed to the Equal Rights Amendment and will continue to work for its passage.
Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment must be aggressively pursued.
I remain committed as strongly as possible to the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
I will continue my own efforts to help ensure ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
As a result of our efforts in 1978, the Equal Rights Amendment's deadline for ratification was extended for three years.
Cultural definitions for Equal Rights Amendment
A twice-proposed but never ratified amendment to the Constitution that would prohibit denial or abridgement of rights on the basis of sex. First proposed in 1923, the amendment was passed by Congress in 1972 but failed ratification by the requisite number of states. It was a major rallying point of the women's movement.
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