Today, there is a new urgency and reasons to act NOW: the Supreme Court, runaway lower federal courts, and extremist state legislatures are working to undermine and weaken women’s rights and gender equality. The Equal Rights Amendment would stop them in their tracks and secure the gains we have achieved. We are closer than ever before and need only a handful of Republicans to put the ERA into the Constitution.
Section One: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section One of the ERA would be a tool to eliminate existing discrimination such as the Pink Tax, Social Security, the wage gap and lifetime earning disparities, veteran benefits and more.
Section Two: The Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.
Section Two provides guard rails against an extremist Supreme Court and other rogue federal judges who believe (like the late Supreme Court Justice Scalia) that the Constitution does not prohibit sex discrimination.
Section Two is a safety net to prevent Dobbs/Chevron from becoming a springboard to other issues and a guarantee that Congress can pass laws, including restoring abortion rights, that will work to end sex discrimination.
The ERA passed Congress with a two-thirds vote in the United States House and Senate and has been ratified by the needed 38 states. The United States House and Senate are considering a Joint Resolution to eliminate any arbitrary time limit and validate the ERA as ratified so that the Archivist will publish the ERA in the Constitution.
What you can do right now:
1) Add your name to Sign4ERA.org (it takes only 3 minutes), showing your support for the ERA and it being enshrined in the United States Constitution;
2) Share the online petition with your friends and family.
3) Email, call and write your Member of Congress; tell them you support the Equal Rights Amendment, and urge them to work to get it published in the Constitution ASAP. You can find your Senators and Repersentative here: congress.gov/members/find-your-member
