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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Equal Rights Amendment to our Constitution only needs one more state
to be ratified. 38 states are needed and it now has 37. One more state and it will be inserted into the Constitution forever. It will give women the exact same rights that men have had for over 200 years. The states that still have to vote for this amendment are:
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Utah
Virginia.
Maybe the #MeToo movement will push this over the finish line.
Heres a link from today
https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/illinois-votes-to-ratify-the-equal-rights-amendment.html
manor321
(3,344 posts)I think it had an expiration date years ago.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,907 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)See my response below yours with a link to the story.
Since Congress passed it way back then that part isnt needed. States have passed equal rights in the state legislatures in the interim, and with women calling for ratification since then it looks like its finally going to happen.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,907 posts)Wouldn't that be something, shoving Our Rights in that orange monster's face?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and I checked it out because I thought it had expired also. Lawrence thinks Virginia might do it with all the changes there.
Yes indeed! The timing seems very good.
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)It has taken forever. Former first ladies Nixon and Ford pushed for it. I don't know how much effect it will have since many things that are constitutional these days aren't being implemented by the moron and GOP Congress.
Liberty Belle
(9,542 posts)Which if Dems regain control could happen.
But even then, there are several states that revoked their earlier votes, so the courts would have to decide which votes would count.
I marched for this decades ago; hard to believe something so simple still isn't the law of the land.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Snip
Thirty-six years after the congressional deadline, Illinois voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees civil rights for all citizens regardless of sex.
This makes Illinois the 37th state to ratify the constitutional amendment, which Congress passed way back on March 22, 1972. Following its approval, the ERA went to the states, where it fell short of ratification after only 35 out of the required 38 states passed it by the June 1982 deadline.
But in the past few years, everyone from actress Meryl Streep to attorney Gloria Allred has revived the call to pass the ERA, despite the passed deadline. In March 2017, decades after Indiana was the last to ratify the ERA before 1982, Nevada approved the constitutional amendment. On May 29, the Illinois House voted 72-45, after the Senate had already passed it.
End of snip.
There will still be a fight because of the deadline, but with only one state needed I doubt women or their men and children will give up.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)Meryl Streep and Gloria Allred.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)you should just shut the fuck up about your right to equal rights.
Maybe we should just wait till one comes along then. Got it.
procon
(15,805 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Women now make up nearly half of the Democratic caucus. First time elected are Latinas, a transgender woman, a lesbian and Asian American women. 11 men were replaced and 15 seats were flipped. Big changes are sweeping through previous solidly Red States.
There are big changes coming this year to many states.
nolabear
(42,017 posts)If every damn state on that list doesnt vote it in simply as a matter of pride I will be deeply ashamed and angry.
America.
But many states have put it or something saying the same thing in their state constitutions.
I took womens history in college and learned that many western territories and states gave women the right to vote because they needed people to populate their states. Thats a bit of history you never learn in the male oriented American history books!
Liberty Belle
(9,542 posts)Back in 1911, La Mesa tried to incorporate but the "no new taxes" crowd of ranchers and landowners, all men, voted it down. The women wanted taxes raised and the city incorporated so they could build schools for the kids.
An amazing woman barnstormed all over to coax the men into lobbying the legislature to grant women the right to vote. She also ran the local temperance group and was a force to be reckoned with, by all accounts
When California granted that right, the women of La Mesa drove in their Model T Fords down to the county registrar of voters and signed up to vote. They put the referendum on the ballot again and this time, the women pushed it through a year or so later, and La Mesa became a city.
And the woman suffragist who led that effort? Helen Stoddard went on to become one of the first women to run for Congress, though she didn't win, but the doors she helped opened have let a flood of women into the halls of Congress and other public officers.
More here: https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/helen-stoddard-powerful-woman-east-countys-past
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I so hated the mans version of American history that in college I took womens history. It was the best college course I ever took.
Yeah! It has always been women who misbehave who have advanced womens rights.
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