After last November’s elections, a headline in the Star Tribune read, “After nearly a century, ERA might finally pass.” The Equal Rights Amendment simply states, “Equality of rights under ...

Indiana Theater and AAUW will present a free, public screening of feature documentary "Ratified" at 7 p.m. Friday at the ...

Government by executive order was not the way things were supposed to work. The framers’ idea was that Congress makes the ...

On Jan. 17, 2025, outgoing President Joe Biden made a last minute an­nouncement of support for the Equal Rights Am­endment.

About 7000 Equal Rights Amendment demonstrators in protest in Raleigh in 1982 after the legislature buried the issue. File photo This week, our nation took a historic step forward after President ...

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) issued the following statement after President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land as the 28th Amendment to ...

Years later, Nevada, Illinois and Virginia voted to ratify the E.R.A—in 2017, 2018 and 2020 respectively. UPI's newsmap shows the status of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1979: five years after ...

In 2017, I proudly led the charge by sponsoring Nevada’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, making it the 36th state to take a stand. With Illinois and Virginia following, we achieved ...

President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely to alter a ...

The Equal Rights Amendment, which would ban discrimination based on gender, was sent to the states for ratification in 1972. Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it in 2020, although years ...