The truth is that the Amendments of a century ago - 16, 17, 19 - were all “progressive” Trojan Horses to dilute and destroy the Constitutional Republic with redistribution (income tax) and democracy (mob rule).
Women are the largest bloc, and vote left of men as a bloc. The communist fellow travelers did not care about the rights of individual women. They cared about moving the nation to socialism, then communism.
We live in interesting times.
That was considered a curse in China.