Three-fourths of U.S. states have ratified the amendment, and many argue it is the 28th Amendment to the Constitution; Women’s Equality Day serves as a reminder of the amendment’s importance. A ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office certified petition titles and summaries for two proposed constitutional amendments that were once part of a singular effort to enshrine equal rights in ...

Sensible Americans consider the Equal Rights Amendment a long-dead relic, but its supporters, incredibly, are still trying to revive it. Congress proposed the ERA in March 1972, and it expired when ...

COLUMBUS — Republicans on the Ohio Ballot Board split a proposed amendment to enshrine equal rights in the state constitution into two parts on Wednesday, throwing a fork in the road of the ...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) led a coalition of fellow legislators and advocates Tuesday in calling on President Biden to certify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) before his term ends in January. Citing the ...

Political debate around the ERA has ramped up in Biden's final months in office. President Joe Biden on Friday said the Equal Right Amendment should be considered ratified, but is stopping short of ...

The ERA consists of two distinct provisions that will revise Section 11, Article 1 of the New York state Constitution. AP New York state’s Proposition One, the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment” on ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted ...

My fellow New Yorkers and I are poised to answer a profound question on Election Day: Do parents have the right to make decisions for our children, or do politicians in Albany get to control our kids?

In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified, potentially enshrining gender equality into the U.S. Constitution as its 28th Amendment. "It is ...