STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Millions of women across the U.S. celebrated on Friday, as President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is now “the law of the land.” One of those women is ...
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 ...
In Boston’s federal courthouse next week, US District Judge William Young will take up Equal Means Equal v. Trump, a lawsuit challenging the Military Selective Service Act of 1967. Enacted during the ...
On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law of ...
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 ...