Supreme Court has consistently ruled for decades that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects women from unequal treatment under the law. Here’s why: The ERA’s Redundancy: Existing Protections for Women To clamor for the ERA, breathlessly painting women as victims who need their own Constitutional Amendment, while Vice President Kamala Harris stands one breath away from becoming President of the United States, is laughable. Just two years later, Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman on a major party presidential ticket. Sandra Day O’Connor had become the first female U.S. When the ERA hit the second deadline without reaching the 38 state ratification requirement in 1982, it had lost much of its urgency. Women had held a presidential cabinet position, sat on a federal court bench, headed a political party, and more. Following the momentum of the equal rights movement, amending the Constitution to affirm those achievements would have radically changed women’s standing in society.īut even without the ERA, women had made great strides by the time the effort resurfaced in 1972. Women had just won the right to vote three years prior, and the first woman to serve in Congress was elected just three years before that. The Equal Rights Amendment made more sense in 1923. In Name Only: The Inequality of the Equal Rights Amendmentīy Cathi Herrod – President, Center for Arizona Policy The Growing Power of Women
Multiple Perspectives on the ERA and its Impact on Women’s Rights
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