The Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by 35 states, just three short of the 38 states needed by the 1982 deadline. In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognised by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA.
The Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by 35 states, just three short of the 38 states needed by the 1982 deadline. In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognised by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA.
The founder of the international women's rights organization
Equality Now, Jessica Neuwirth is the former director of the
New York branch of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights. She lives in New York City.
Gloria Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and
social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a
leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation
movement in the 1960s and 1970s. She lives in New York
City.
"The time is right for the ERA and a new movement of women and men,
Democrats and Republicans alike, to put this fundamental right into
our Constitution. Equal Means Equal clearly and eloquently lays out
the issues at stake and will be an essential tool for the
movement."
—Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
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