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House of Representatives, calling for the federal government to certify the ratification of Equal Rights Amendment. On October 2021, in the video above, Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy (D-Prince William) led the ERA resolution in the House. Mamie Locke (D-Hampton) were the lead Senate patrons of Virginia’s resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, clearing the threshold for ratification. Constitution.” She added that it’s not possible to “change the history that Virginia made in 2020, becoming the 38 th state to ratify the ERA.” For my family, my Commonwealth, and my country, it has been a long march toward equality. The people of Virginia have already spoken: It’s time for the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified into the U.S. “We came together across gender, party, racial and generational lines to guarantee equity under the law. “Two years ago, Virginia sent a bipartisan message that our Commonwealth believes equal rights for women should be enshrined in the U.S.

The streaming, Germanna Community Conversation titled “Virginia and the ERA: Women’s Activism Inside and Outside the Legislature,” is open to the public, free, but participants must register at /conversations today, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, will address Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares’ effort to rescind the Commonwealth’s vote to ratify the amendment by withdrawing from a lawsuit that seeks to force the federal government to recognize it and add the text to the Constitution. The text says simply that, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”Ī Germanna Community College Women’s History month virtual discussion at 6 p.m. The ERA amendment was first offered to Congress in 1923. So when in 2020 Virginia became the final state needed to ratify the ERA, it was almost 40 years too late.

It said 38, or 3/4 of the states, had to ratify the proposed amendment by 1979. Yet the ERA was never added to the Constitution – because Congress also set a deadline. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, following the lead of the House of Representatives and paving the way for it to become the 28th Amendment to the U.S.

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT SERIES

The main correspondents for this series are Jacqueline Goyette Gutwillig, Chairwoman of the CACSW, and Catherine Shipe East, Executive Secretary of the CACSW. What happened?įifty years ago last week, the U.S. Specific topics include equal rights amendments, womens rights, sex discrimination against women, and the Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S). Pro-ERA Demonstration photo via Wikimedia Commons 50 years ago sex equality seemed destined for the Constitution.