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CTyankee

(63,889 posts) Mon Jul 5, 2021, 11:28 AM Jul 2021

Can we figure out how to get the ERA enacted? Is it hopeless, an artifact of "then" and not "now"?

My feminist relatives discussed this over the holiday. Comments ranged from "Oh my god, YES!" to "We have to do this differently. The ERA was a creature of its time and now we are post-ERA.

Should we abandon and take the alternative course of building it's ramification one by one?

I am not a constitutional lawyer. If you have information on the progress/non-progress of the ERA's inherent values to the status of women, please tell me what you know and I do not.

Thanks to all who might feel this is a good holiday to re-think the ERA.

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Can we figure out how to get the ERA enacted? Is it hopeless, an artifact of "then" and not "now"? (Original Post) CTyankee Jul 2021 OP

I'm still not sure how the GOP can argue against it. But they do. flying_wahini Jul 2021 #1

I wonder how that list varies from our current situation. CTyankee Jul 2021 #2

Because abortion Polybius Jul 2021 #5

Given that the deadline to pass it expired almost 4 decades ago, starting over seems the only way. Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #3

Yes and stop using the right to privacy as the foundation. Use the Equal Protection basis instead. CTyankee Jul 2021 #6

Ruth Bader Ginsburg in early 2020 said we have to start over Polybius Jul 2021 #4

i will help if i can rampartc Jul 2021 #7

It's simple. We need to control more state legislatures. CrispyQ Jul 2021 #8

flying_wahini

(6,578 posts)

1. I'm still not sure how the GOP can argue against it. But they do.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Mon Jul 5, 2021, 11:36 AM

Jul 2021

I mean, just pay everyone that has the same jobs the same pay.

I really think it would pass if they brought it up for a vote Now.

So many women work, vs when they first tried to pass it in 1982.

It is a two step process and even tho it passed there were several states that refused to ratify it.

The 15 states that did not ratify the Equal Rights Amendment before the 1982 deadline were Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.