Posted on 10/26/2019 8:49:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As Carol Jenkins sees it, a nearly 100-year push to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is closer to reality now than it’s ever been.
That’s why there’s a “tremendous effort” underway to elect supporters of the long-stalled gender equality measure in Virginia’s elections next month, says Jenkins, co-president and CEO of the nationwide ERA Coalition. Advocates hope if they can pick up a few seats from Republican opponents, the once solidly conservative Southern state that’s voted down the ERA time and again might instead be the critical 38th to approve it.
Virginia voters “have the future of girls and women in their hands,” Jenkins says.
Initially proposed in Congress in 1923 and passed in 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment would ban discrimination on the basis of sex, explicitly enshrining equality for women in the U.S. Constitution. Thirty-seven states have ratified it; supporters say having 38 would meet the constitutional threshold for approval.
There’s a hitch: A 1982 ratification deadline set by Congress and other thorny questions are bound to hold up the efforts in court, many legal experts say.
ERA opponents criticize the measure as unnecessary, in part because of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees all U.S. citizens “equal protection of the laws.” They say the long-passed deadline means the ERA amendment isn’t eligible for ratification now, something proponents say Congress could resolve. …
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Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, pre-maternity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.That is the sole intent of the Equal Rights Amendment—to turn the US Constitution into a communist constitution.
— 1936 USSR constitution, Article 122
Women and men have equal rights in the USSR.
Exercise of these rights is ensured by according women equal access with men to education and vocational and professional training, equal opportunities in employment, remuneration, and promotion, and in social and political, and cultural activity, and by special labour and health protection measures for women; by providing conditions enabling mothers to work; by legal protection, and material and moral support for mothers and children, including paid leaves and other benefits for expectant mothers and mothers, and gradual reduction of working time for mothers with small children.
— 1977 USSR constitution, Article 35
Women in the People's Republic of China enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life, political, economic, cultural, social, and family life.
The state protects the rights and interests of women, applies the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women alike and trains and selects cadres from among women.
— Red China constitution, Article 48
The ERA had an expiration date built into it.
That expiration date has passed.
So it is unlikely to become part of the Constitution even if Virginia passes it.
“The 15 states whose legislatures did not ratify the Equal Rights Amendment by the 1982 deadline are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.”
The “equal rights” activists are reaping what they sowed with Title IX. Turns out the best woman, in the legal/affirmative-action sense of the word, is a man pretending to be a woman.
Get to the back of the bus, feminazis!
The same thing will happen with the ERA.
It’s a thing of beauty when the Leftists get the unintended consequences of what they shoved down everyone else’ throats.
Carter extended the damn thing three extra years. It had a ten year ratification period.
The Equal Rights Amendment had passed both houses of Congress by the required 2/3 vote, then was submitted to the states for ratification.
The legal problems as I recall are:
The time limits set for passing the amendment have long passed, decades ago.
A few states which had ratified the amendment later rescinded their ratifications. Legally, nobody knows the status of those states actions.
It’s clear that the liberal view will be, that time limits for ratification can be ignored, and that states which rescinded ratification of the amendment can also be ignored.
I predict a Supreme Court ruling will eventually happen, if indeed the liberals claim that Virginia would put the amendment over the top for ratification.
And five States have rescinded their passage.
“Five states – Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, Tennessee, and South Dakota – have attempted to withdraw their approval of the Equal Rights Amendment. According to precedent and statutory language, however, a state rescission or other withdrawal of its ratification of a constitutional amendment is not accepted as valid.
So they are really five more short.
I only have one question for the so-called activists.
Are you ok with men taking over women’s sports?
I’ll judge how much you really care about women’s rights based on your answer.
personally I want to be equal with women .... so pass it already
When you consider the changes in society, large numbers of women in professional life, the business world, etc. as a result of the women’s movement, one could really wonder, if an “equal rights amendment” is really needed for women’s advancement, and “women’s rights” overall.
It's dead. Any belated ratifications are strictly a case of virtue signaling, and the Archivist of the United States will return the Certificate of Ratification to the Secretary of State of Virginia with a rejection letter attached.
Women are well over 50% of college enrollees.
And the student loan debt that goes along with it.
Not very bright to bury yourself in debt for a degree that qualifies you to be a trainee at Starbucks.
One of the assurances made by ERA backers at the time was “No, men are not going to be allowed to use women’s bathrooms.”
They want equal, but separate. Or as some else put it, “more equal than others.”
The Supreme Court declined to hear the case in 1982. They won’t take the case again.
You want the US Constitution to be more like the old Soviet constitution than ever?
Take into consideration the current rights of women and consider the current rights of men in this country. Time for men to have the same rights as women currently enjoy
I have had no problems with the idea of equal rights for women and men. The problem I now have is that during a period of uncertainty about what is actually a woman or a man is not the time to amend the Constitution in this regard. This gender nonsense must be dealt with first. I for one, refuse to aknowledge transgenders by their chosen identity.
they don’t want equal rights, they want ‘extra super duper above and beyond rights’
If we want the CONSTITUTION followed, we need to stop bitching about Republican candidates in the November elections and simply VOTE FOR THEM.
...otherwise crap like this becomes the LAW OF THE LAND.
There is no middle ground, not anymore. Sorry.
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