House passes resolution clearing path for the Equal Rights Amendment
And yet “the ERA is still not enshrined in the Constitution,'' the California Democrat said. ”As a result, women still face inequality under the law from the wage gap to pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment and, again, resulting in women being underrepresented at the table.''
“I would like to see a new beginning," Ginsburg said Monday night at Georgetown University law school in Washington. “I'd like it to start over.” Ginsburg has been a champion of the Equal Rights Amendment for decades. And her standard response to the question of how she would improve the Constitution is to point to the ERA.
"Thanks to the tireless work of so many trailblazers and activists over the years, women -- finally -- are one step closer to being included in our nation’s founding document,” she said.
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