A proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution advanced by the National Women’s Party in 1923, which would have guaranteed that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” The ERA’s long history ended in 1979 when it failed to be ratified by a full three-quarters of the s [..]

(1923-1982) failed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would prohibit legal discrimination based on sex.

An attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution to guarantee equal rights between the sexes. More commonly called the ERA, this proposed amendment expired in 1982 and was never ratified.

A proposed amendment to the US constitution to gurantee equal rights under the law to both sexes.

The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution was intended to explicitly guarantee equality to all persons, regardless of gender. After passing in Congress in 1972, the amendment [..]

The Equal Rights Amendment affirms that both women and men hold equally all of the rights guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution. The most important effect of the ERA would be to clarify the status of s [..]

A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. Introduced to Congress for the first time in 1923, it has not yet been ratified, and organizations [..]