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"Why We Still Need the ERA
Having the right to
vote is important but, as feminists have always understood, it is not
sufficient to guarantee equality.
By Erica Jong
“ … Nearly all other
Constitutions have incorporated words like this.
Only the United
States is lacking an Equal Rights Amendment.
“Women were left out
of the Constitution more than 200 years ago. Almost 100 years ago,
just after women finally got the right to vote, the ERA was
introduced by Alice Paul to give women all other equal rights. We are
way behind the rest of the world, where most countries have
constitutional guarantees of sex equality,” says Jessica Neuwirth,
president of the ERA Coalition. “It’s time to put women in the
Constitution once and for all.”
As we watch women’s rights being
rolled back again and again we realize that without a place in the
Constitution we will never be able to safeguard the gains we make.
… as any woman can tell
you—the vote was not enough. Customs, prejudices, and sexism do not
disappear so fast.
Alice Paul foresaw all of
this.
She realized that unless we had an Equal Rights Amendment, we
would never be able to insure our rights to claim equal protection
under the law. And she was right. …
… Whenever ratification
seems near, another obstacle is invented.
… Despite this,
millennial women and men have taken up the fight for the ERA because
they understand that if we are not protected in the Constitution our
rights can always be taken away.
… so would we all like
“to be in the Constitution.” We’d like it for our daughters,
our granddaughters and also for our sons and grandsons.
Laws are
important. They enshrine beliefs and make them actionable. They tell
us what our society stands for. We stand for equal rights: our
Constitution must reflect this.”
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