Will the proposed amendment guaranteeing equal protection regardless of sex become part of the Constitution?
Nearly 100 years after the 19th Amendment granted some women the right to vote, the upper and lower chambers of Virginia's legislature voted to pass the Equal Rights Amendment on Wednesday—positioning it to be the last state needed to ratify it and make it part of the U.S. Constitution.
Suffragist Alice Paul proposed the first version of the amendment in 1923, and it was introduced in Congress that same year. However, since then, it has had a tumultuous and tortuous route to becoming law. As reported by, an amended version of the ERA had to be reintroduced in every Congressional session for nearly 50 years before it passed in 1972.
However, pro-ERA women's rights organizations like the League of Women Voters continued to push for ratification across different states, after the seven-year deadline, and even following the extended 1982 deadline had passed, according to the Alice Paul Institute. By the end of the last decade, only 37 of the 38 required state legislatures had ratified it.
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