![]() Rep Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Hunter College president Jennifer Raab, Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal, Ms. On April 24, the ERA petition drive was launched by the four Grove fellows who authored the petition, other Hunter students and hundreds more, who were joined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and long-time ERA advocates including former U.S. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that notwithstanding any time limit contained in House Joint Resolution 208, 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972, the article of amendment proposed to the States in that joint resolution is valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution, having been ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States. Congress must immediately recognize the Equal Rights Amendment and pass the following United States House and Senate resolutions: The ERA passed Congress with the needed 2/3rd vote of the United States House and Senate as well as the legislatures of the needed 38 states. Section 3: This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. Section 2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 1: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. I strongly support the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution as the 28th Amendment which reads: Feminist leaders, Hunter College students and ERA activists celebrate the official launch of the Sign4ERA petition drive. To demonstrate this support for the ERA, Grove fellowship students at Hunter College in New York City launched a petition drive to send a message to Congress that the time is now to put gender equality into the Constitution. Today, opinion polls consistently show public support for ERA at 75 to 90 percent, up substantially from the 55 to 65 percent support in the 1980s. House and Senate have introduced joint resolutions to recognize the ERA as valid and ratified, and eliminate the arbitrary timeline for ratification inserted into the pre-amble of the ERA when it was originally passed. It is now up to Congress to recognize the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. Both houses of Congress passed the ERA by a two-thirds vote 50 years ago, after which the required 38 states ratified the ERA when the Virginia legislature voted yes in 2020. ![]() The ERA has fulfilled all requirements of Article V of the Constitution. Now a new generation, including high school and college students, are organizing shoulder-to-shoulder with seasoned feminists demanding the ERA be recognized as ratified and immediately added to the Constitution. Shirley Chisholm would cast a vote for the ERA when it passed the House in 1971, and she fought for ratification her entire life. The Honorable Shirley Chisholm-who ran for president in 1972 and served in Congress for 14 years-speaking in support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on the floor of the U.S. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. ![]() As there were no Black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers-a great pity, on both counts. “The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. A marcher holds a sign that says, “ERA NOW” during the Women’s March in New York City on Jan. ![]()
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