"It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, ...

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A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

KSTP/SurveyUSA poll: Minnesota voters say equal rights, abortion should be in separate constitutional amendments A debate in the Minnesota Legislature over whether to combine abortion and equal rights ...

A girl is seen in between "ERA NOW" signs as people hold a rally in front of the National Archives to highlight President Joe Biden's decision to declare the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th ...

CLEVELAND -- Organizers for a proposed Ohio Equal Rights Amendment say they will not fight the Ohio Ballot Board’s decision to split their proposed initiative into two parts but will instead forge ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

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America’s feminists were feeling confident. Three years earlier, they’d won passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. And now, 100 years ago this week, they watched as the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that’s unlikely to ...