Equal Rights Amendment

People have been pushing to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution for a century, but there was new movement in the U.S. House this week. Sue O’Connell talks to Rep. Jackie Speier and activist Carol Jenkins about what this move means, and explains why the proposed amendment’s history has been a rollercoaster ride.

We’re shining a spotlight on Denella Clark for Women’s History Month. Clark is chair of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women and President of the Boston Arts Academy Foundation. In this segment, Maria Sansone learns Clark’s path to becoming a leader and gets details on Boston Arts Academy Honors. It is the BAA Foundation’s signature annual fundraising event...

With a nod to Women’s History Month, the Democratic-led House has passed two measures, one designed to protect women from domestic violence, the other to remove the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

A federal district court judge ruled late Friday that recent state votes to ratify the proposed Equal Rights Amendment came too late to make it part of the Constitution. The ruling was a defeat for ERA supporters and the three states that asked the judge to declare that the amendment became formally adopted after Virginia last year became the 38th...

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that roughly 3 in 4 Americans support the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, nearly 50 years after it passed Congress in 1972

In a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House on Thursday approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopening the process to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex.

Virginia became the crucial 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment Monday, a momentous victory for many women’s rights advocates even though it is far from certain the measure ever will be added to the U.S. Constitution. Virginia’s House and Senate approved the resolution to ratify the amendment decades after Congress sent the ERA to the states in...

The Equal Rights Amendment is continuing to advance in the Virginia Legislature, where its passage is all but certain.

The Justice Department has issued a finding that an expired pair of deadlines imposed by Congress decades ago means it’s too late for more states to ratify it now.

The Justice Department has thrown a roadblock into efforts to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, finding that an expired pair of deadlines imposed by Congress on ratification of the measure means it’s too late for additional states to ratify it now. The memo by Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel comes as Virginia is poised to become the decisive 38th...