![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() President Jimmy Carter Signing Extension of Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Ratification. Congress decided to extend the time limit to Jhowever, no additional states ratified the amendment during its extension. In 1978, with the seven-year deadline approaching, the ERA was three states short of reaching the required three-fourths mark. (National Archives Identifier 7455549)Ĭongress then sent the ERA to the states but included a seven-year deadline for ratification. Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women, March 22, 1972. The Senate approved an identical version on March 22, 1972, by a vote of 84–8. On October 12, 1971, the House approved Griffiths’s version of the ERA by a vote of 354–24. 208 not only made it to the floor, it was successful. While previous attempts to pass the ERA rarely got out of committee, H.J. The text read:Įquality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. 208, proposing an Equal Rights Amendment. In 1971, Representative Martha Griffiths introduced H.J. Anthony’s nephew, this was the first time the ERA was introduced into the U.S. Drafted by Alice Paul and introduced by Daniel Anthony, Susan B. 75, Proposing an Equal Rights Amendment, December 13, 1923. It was first drafted in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul, and since then some version of the ERA was introduced in every session of Congress until 1971. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee equal rights under the law regardless of sex. Today we’re looking at an amendment that was first introduced nearly 100 years ago and we’re still talking about today: The Equal Rights Amendment. From the very beginning, the inequality of men and women under the Constitution has been an issue for advocacy.Ĭheck out the video and links below to learn more about this history of women’s fight for legal gender equality in the United States.įor more information about Alice Paul, visit is the fifth installment of a series about unratified constitutional amendments. In her remarks as she introduced the Equal Rights Amendment in Seneca Falls in 1923, Alice Paul sounded a call that has great poignancy and significance over 80 years later: "If we keep on this way they will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the 1848 Convention without being much further advanced in equal rights than we are…If we had not concentrated on the Federal Amendment we should be working today for suffrage…We shall not be safe until the principle of equal rights is written into the framework of our government."Īs supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment lobbied, marched, rallied, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, and committed acts of civil disobedience between 19, it is probable that many of them were not aware of their place in the long historical continuum of women's struggle for constitutional equality in the United States. The fight for equal rights in the United States has a rich history of advocacy and activism by both women and men who believe in constitutionally protected gender equality.įrom the first visible public demand for women’s suffrage in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott at the first Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York to the introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment by Alice Paul in 1923, the fight for gender equality is not over. ![]()
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