Virginia has just become the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment! ERAnow ERAyes ERA2020
The ERA declares 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.”
“When we started this drive for the ERA in the late 1960s and early 1970s, women were less than three percent of the members of Congress and less than 10 percent of state legislatures,” Smeal recalled. “Because of the difficulty of passing the ERA and other legislation involving women’s rights, more and more women have decided to run for office and a gender gap in women’s voting began to emerge first in 1980 in the fight for the ERA and has now become a major force in American elections.
BREAKING: The House of Delegates just passed HJ1, my resolution to have Virginia be the 38th and final state to ratify the
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