Equal Rights Amendment /tags/equal-rights-amendment Equal Rights Amendment en-US Copyright Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:00:00 GMT Biden Administration Resurrects Office To Help Women 'At The Breaking Point' /news-partners/2021-02-04/biden-administration-resurrects-office-to-help-women-at-the-breaking-point President Biden pledged that equal pay, paid family leave and affordable child care will be at the forefront of his administration's work. He's creating a Gender Policy Council to take these on. Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:00:00 GMT /news-partners/2021-02-04/biden-administration-resurrects-office-to-help-women-at-the-breaking-point Melissa Block House Votes To Revive Equal Rights Amendment, Removing Ratification Deadline /news-partners/2020-02-13/house-votes-to-revive-equal-rights-amendment-removing-ratification-deadline Changing the deadline is one way ERA proponents are trying to make the amendment part of the Constitution, but there isn't legal consensus on the tactic, and the Senate is expected to kill the bill. Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:35:26 GMT /news-partners/2020-02-13/house-votes-to-revive-equal-rights-amendment-removing-ratification-deadline Danielle Kurtzleben Virginia Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment, Decades After The Deadline /news-partners/2020-01-15/virginia-ratifies-the-equal-rights-amendment-decades-after-the-deadline The ERA's provisions include a guarantee that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of sex." But its legal status is uncertain. Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:36:00 GMT /news-partners/2020-01-15/virginia-ratifies-the-equal-rights-amendment-decades-after-the-deadline Bill Chappell Disability Employment /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2019-02-12/disability-employment When the labor market tightens up, opportunities open up for largely marginalized groups, including people who are disabled.But in Ohio, the workforce鈥� Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:00:00 GMT /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2019-02-12/disability-employment Virginia Could Be The State To Give Women Equal Rights Nationwide /news-partners/2018-11-18/virginia-could-be-the-state-to-give-women-equal-rights-nationwide A bipartisan coalition of Virginia lawmakers is working to make the state the 38th and final one needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Sun, 18 Nov 2018 22:40:24 GMT /news-partners/2018-11-18/virginia-could-be-the-state-to-give-women-equal-rights-nationwide Whittney Evans