Equal Rights Amendment Advocacy Committee

11/03/2020

We vote for a future with intersectional gender equality for all! Join us supporting by sharing our virtual voter stickers.

08/21/2020

Where was the this week? Check out the blog!

www.equalrightsamendment.org/blog/2020/8/21/era-in-the-news-august-15-21-2020

08/19/2020

Did you hear First Lady Rosalynn Carter at the tonight? Take a minute to wish her a happy 93rd birthday! First Lady Carter and President Jimmy Carter were vocal in their support for the throughout Carter’s presidency and beyond.

08/14/2020

"History suggests that once discriminatory barriers begin to fall, legal equality (which is very different from real-world equality) usually follows. Eventually, this historical period of partially illegal and partially legal transgender termination will look like an anomaly or interregnum. "
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https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/transgender-americans-legal-equality-discrimination-1.48012784

In June, you'll recall, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Title VII prohibition on workplace discrimination "because of s*x" covers transgender people. You might think that, as a result, this form

08/13/2020

Happy birthday to the Director of the Center for Antiracist Research X. Kendi, an author and historian who is also known for this books and presentations focused on antiracism and the study of race and discrimination. What is your favorite book by Dr. Kendi?

08/13/2020

Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. Black cisgendered women typically earn $0.62 cents for every dollar that a non-Hispanic white cisgendered man makes, making TODAY the day a black woman would have to work until to earn the same as a white man earned in 2019. The would give black women a valubale tool in the fight for pay equity.

08/10/2020

On this day in 1970, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm presented her Speech for the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. House of Representatives. Chisholm, the first black candidate to be nominated by a majority party for the Presidency, supported the during her time in Congress and the House of Representatives.

08/09/2020

“Fifty years ago, the ERA’s chances were poisoned by the choices of a few powerful male leaders in Washington and in state legislatures. Now similar forces are poised to do it all over again.”

There are a record high number of women in Congress, but men hold the power over the ERA.

08/06/2020

What do equal rights and geography have in common? The answer might surprise you.
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It’s become particularly relevant during the pandemic

08/04/2020

Happy birthday to the 44th president of the United States, . Pres. Obama’s first act as president was to sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which strengthens workers’ protections in pay discrimination cases. His Exec. Dir. Tina Tchen also publicly supported ERA ratification in 2011 in the name of the Obama Administration.

07/29/2020

“Whether in the UK or the US, revisionist history can be very powerful in completely erasing someone’s imperfections and faults. It’s worth examining the shortcomings of our feminist heroes. That doesn’t make what they did within the movement less important. It just recognises where their blind spots were and encourages us to know and do better.”

Shirley Chisholm was a woman of many firsts. She was the first black woman elected to Congress, the first black candidate to seek the presidency, and the first woman, full-stop, to participate in a US presidential debate. She introduced more than 50 pieces of legislation, most championing racial, ec...

07/24/2020

Happy Birthday to the great Amelia Earhart! Earhart was a record-breaking pilot and author, becoming the first female aviator to navigate a solo flight across the Atlantic. She was also an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, and was a member of Alice Paul's National Woman's Party.