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A grassroots organization called Ohio Equal Rights is collecting signatures for two proposed amendments. One of those ...

BOSTON - Many Americans assume that gender equality under the law is baked into the Constitution. There is a U.S. Constitutional Amendment that guarantees "Equal Protection" under the law, but in ...

Often when we consider issues of national importance, we think in sweeping terms affecting millions of people over generations. But when it comes to finally enshrining equal rights for women in the ...

The culture war carousel has gone into overdrive. Extreme whitemenification of federal government perpetrated by the Trump/DOGE administration underscores the serious need for an Equal Rights ...

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which states that equal rights under the law cannot be denied on account of sex, has been in a perpetual state of limbo for 100 years. Originally written by ...

Sensible Americans consider the Equal Rights Amendment a long-dead relic, but its supporters, incredibly, are still trying to revive it. Congress proposed the ERA in March 1972, and it expired when ...

In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified, potentially enshrining gender equality into the U.S. Constitution as its 28th Amendment. "It is ...