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    The full text of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) reads as follows, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” (qtd. in Stewart 33). These twenty-four words would become some of the most controversial of the twentieth century. Under the nineteenth amendment, American women obtained the right to vote in 1920. This amendment inspired Alice Paul to draft the first ERA which she then introduced to the United States Congress

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    The Equal Rights Amendment provides various benefits. The following are some of the ways women would have benefited from the Equal Rights Amendment: *All gender discriminating would have been completely abolished under the United States laws and the United States family court laws. Therefore, it would become illegal to show gender favoritism. *American citizens would legally have equal, civil, human and diplomatic rights from all type of discrimination. With the Equal Rights Amendment, the Constitution

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    Introduction This essay will explore the reasons why the anti-Equal Rights Amendment of the 1970s was successful in keeping the proposed amendment from being added to the Constitution. It starts with a discussion of the process in congress and what it took for the amendment to even reach the states for a vote, and the exact literature of the amendment. It continues by analyzing what caused the movement for the ERA, successes of the feminist movement in the 1970s and leaders in the pro ERA movement

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    This article explains the history of ERA and all the consequences and effects that it had on the genders and their equalities. This article goes over the struggles with women’s rights throughout the 19th century, leading towards the victory for woman suffrage. Afterwards, the article transits to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and goes into depth as it describes how gender equality was nationally accepted more as time went by. This source maintains on the objective side, as it uses only facts that

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    In the year 1923, Alice Paul, a famous suffragette, proposed an amendment to the Congress of the United States of America that would explicitly require the United States government to treat men and women equally. This proposed amendment, commonly referred to by the masses as the Equal Rights Amendment, reads as the following: “Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the

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    Equal Rights Amendment The Roaring Twenties brought along more than just a change in fashion and culture, it also introduced the strong fighting National Woman’s Party which introduced the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress in 1923.The Equal Rights Amendment had several purposes that seemed extremely important to women, however, a bit contradicting to 1920s society and American culture. In 1912 Alice Stokes Paul and Lucy Burns were appointed into the National American Woman Suffrage Association

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    movement to pass the Equal Rights Amendment was when the amendment was introduced to Congress while being promoted by Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Furthermore, the support for the amendment grew from 1960 to 1970 and that brought dozens of states legislatures to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The fall of the movement to pass the amendment is the result of the countermovement’s being led by Phyllis Schlafly. Phyllis raised many concerns and questions about the amendment that the ERA supporters

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    (which takes a two-thirds majority vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives), or a constitutional convention (which takes two-thirds of the State legislatures) want to propose an amendment, they give it to the National Archives and Records Administration. The Congress proposes the amendment as a joint resolution to the National Archives and Records Administrations Office of the Federal Register for the publication process. The Office of the Federal Register adds legislative notes to

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    topics. One big event in history was the Equal Rights Amendment. A reasoning behind this amendment coming about was the lack of freedom that women as a whole did not have access to. Even still to this day women are lacking the pay and privileges of some men. Women deserve every right and privilege that men get in the workplace and in everyday life. Women unequal rights started way back in history. Even by the end of the new Constitution’s promised rights, women were unable to vote, own property

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    The 19th amendment states that the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. The 19th amendment was a significant turning point for many women in America. It gave women freedom that they didn’t have before. Before this amendment was passed many women had no self portrayal, something they couldn’t reach with a male figure ruling next to them. That was until 1920 when the 19th amendment was passed. The amendment let women

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