/tags/era ERA en-US Copyright Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:35:26 GMT /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 /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 /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 /news-partners/2018-05-31/one-more-to-go-illinois-ratifies-equal-rights-amendment The passage comes 36 years after the ratification deadline set by Congress. Some say the votes are merely symbolic — but the ERA's backers disagree. Thu, 31 May 2018 18:58:00 GMT /news-partners/2018-05-31/one-more-to-go-illinois-ratifies-equal-rights-amendment Bill Chappell