Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment is Now

When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and All in the Family ‘s Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight stat