Proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment are revitalizing the charge to codify its provisions in the Arizona Constitution. But Republican control of the Legislature could again put the Democratic-led ...

CLEVELAND -- Organizers for a proposed Ohio Equal Rights Amendment say they will not fight the Ohio Ballot Board’s decision to split their proposed initiative into two parts but will instead forge ...

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office certified petition titles and summaries for two proposed constitutional amendments that were once part of a singular effort to enshrine equal rights in ...

The amendment has been in the works since 1920 and passed a milestone in 2020. A century-long battle to amend the Constitution to cement equal rights for Americans regardless of sex is coming to a ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. For two straight sessions, backers of placing an equal rights amendment in the ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

That high percentage has Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley, D-Tucson, hopeful that this Legislature might pass a bill to approve the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that ...

In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified, potentially enshrining gender equality into the U.S. Constitution as its 28th Amendment. "It is ...

President Joe Biden, just days before he will exit the White House, announced on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment, which would enshrine in the U.S. Constitution equal rights for women, is now ...