What Is the Equal Rights Amendment? The Century-Long Battle to Write Women into the Constitution

[Keri Lynn Engel]

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed constitutional amendment designed to explicitly guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. While modern readers might view terms like “persons” or “citizens” in the original Constitution as gender-neutral, lawmakers and courts historically understood them as applying almost exclusively to men, leaving women without […]

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