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 petitioners’ process.

But the Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923 by suffragists Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, was never ratified. You can in part thank Phyllis Schlafly , who's portrayed by Cate Blanchett ...

Attorney General Dave Yost accepted the title and summary for a proposed citizen-led ballot initiative on Thursday that would ...

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Fourth, Equal Rights Amendment activists like to point out that the 27th Amendment, the most recent addition to the Constitution, was proposed in 1789 but not finally ratified until May 1992.

Understanding the state of the Equal Rights Amendment depends on who you ask. Backers of the ERA say it went into effect as of January 27, having met all the constitutional requirements, and ...

The Equal Rights Amendment was written by Alice Paul (1885-1977), the founder of the National Woman’s Party.

This week Illinois lawmakers approved the Equal Rights Amendment, a long-proposed addition to the United States Constitution that would ensure equal rights to all Americans regardless of sex. You ...

Nearly half a century after the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress, the proposal to enshrine equality for women in the U.S. Constitution has gained new momentum.

Adopting the long-overdue Equal Rights Amendment could help bolster existing statutory protections under attack, making it a key element in the fight for gender equality. Supreme Court Justice ...

Congress should ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Our Constitution is one of the most difficult in the world to amend. The last truly significant amendment — the 26th, which lowered the voting ...

Women's rights activist Alice Paul pushed an Equal Rights Amendment in the early 1920s, and it was first introduced in Congress in 1923. However, getting the ERA further took a while.