LOS ANGELES – Did you know that 85% of U.N. member states have constitutions that explicitly guarantee equality for women & girls??
The United States *IS NOT* one of them! “As the Equality Act takes center stage for the LGBTQ community and appears to be advancing rapidly through congress, we must remember the long journey of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Alice Paul, Crystal Eastman, and others in 1923 proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) language that said “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” It is still not law.
And though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled repeated over the past several decades that the 14th Amendment, which guarantees “equal protection of the