Equal Rights Amendment

• Equal Rights Amendment--ERA

• Equal rights amendments

• The Equal Rights Amendment: then and now.

Far from a dead letter, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is currently pending in both houses of Congress. (1) When Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) reint...

• Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
• Vol. 17 Nbr. 3, September 2008

• Separating Dick and Jane: Single-Sex Public Education Under the Washington State Equal Rights Amendment

Single-sex education in public school systems has become increasingly popular in recent years. The Equal Rights Amendment to the Washington State Constitution (ERA) requires that males and females be treated equally where state action, such as public education, is involved. As demonstrated by the ERA's legislative history and Washington case law, the ERA prohibits differentiation on the basis of sex alone, which occurs where an individual would be treated differently in a given situation if that person were of the opposite sex. Legislative history and case law recognize two narrow exceptions to the ERA. Under the first exception, classification based on sex is permissible if it is based on actual physical differences between the sexes. The second exception allows sex-based distinctions ...

• Washington Law Review
• Vol. 81 Nbr. 2, May 2006

• Housewives 1, Feminists 0: divided over women's rights, the two sides waged a battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.

On June 30, 1982, Phyllis Schlafly threw one very big party. She and more than 1,400 other conservatives in Washington popped corks, sang songs, and d...

• New York Times Upfront
• Vol. 134 Nbr. 11, March 2002

• Equal Rights Amendment

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was the most highly publicized and debated constitutional amendment before the United States for mo...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Dou–Fre

• Equal Rights Amendment

In March 1972, Congress proposed an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution. The amendment provided: ...

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
• CL-EY

• Ronnie Johnson v. Michael Wenerowicz, (3rd Cir. 2011)

... September 2010, Johnson initiated a civil rights action pursuant to 42U.S.C. § 1983 in the United ...") violated his due process rights, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the...

• Federal Circuits

• Necromancing the Equal Rights Amendment.

In 1972, fifty years after an earlier version was first introduced, both houses of Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by the necessary...

• Constitutional Commentary
• Vol. 17 Nbr. 3, December 2000

• Dream of Equal Rights Amendment Not Forgotten

Today, we should have a moment of silence. On this day in 1982, the Equal Rights Amendment died. Unable to overcome the lies and distortions of its opponents, it failed to win ratification by the 38 states necessary.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• July 07, 2004

• Does an Equal Rights Amendment make a difference?

Because the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution was never ratified, one cannot know what its impact might have bee...

• Albany Law Review
• Vol. 60 Nbr. 5, August 1997

• Morocco Is the Quiet Success Story of the Arab Spring with New Constitution and Free Elections Friday, November 25th

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Ahmed Herzenni, who was imprisoned for over 12 years for treason (advocating democratic reform) and then given amnesty and appointed President of the Moroccan Advisory Council on Human Rights, is also one of the 19 members of the Citizens Committee which drafted Morocco's new constitution earlier this year. Dr. Herzenni this week met with government officials, academics, and major think tanks to discuss Morocco's path towards democratization and the historic reforms embodied in his country's new constitution. These include the transfer of the role and responsibility of Head of State from the King to a new, freely elected Prime Minister; parity for women in a new equal rights amendment; protection of all religions under law (a first for any A...

• U.S. Newswire
• November 28, 2011