History of the Equal Rights Amendment

• Women were granted the right to vote in 1920

• The 19th amendment did not fully end discrimination of women

• It was also a time when many women were also opposed to women's liberation

The National Women's Party - Organization founded in 1916 that fought for Women's

Rights

- Helped obtain the 19th Amendment

The Birth of The Equal Rights Amendment

• In 1923 the suffragists met again to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.

• Brought up the inequalities regarding women after the 19th Amendment was passed

• At this event, suffragist Alice Paul proposed the "Lucretia Mott Amendment"

After the 19THamendment women still lacked equality

in the following areas

• Education • Sexual liberation • Women in the labor force• Health • Political representation

"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or

abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."

Second Wave Feminism

• Freedom from legal sex discrimination, required an Equal Rights Amendment that affirmed the Constitution to all citizens.

• More women became conscious of the necessity for women's rights

•Women organized to demand their rights as citizens and persons

• on March 22, 1972 The Equal Rights Amendment passed the U.S. Senate and then the House of Representatives,

• The proposed 27th Amendment was sent to the states for ratification.

• Congress placed a seven-year deadline on the ratification process.

• the ERA only received 22 of the necessary 38 state ratifications.

• The pace slowed as opposition began

The Equal Rights Amendment

NOW !• Pro-ERA advocacy was led by the

National Organization for Women (NOW)

• More states postponed consideration for ratification

• Political Leaders have been pushing for the revision of the ERA

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcjn8PMyhhE

Hillary Clinton

• During her position as Senator for the state of New York she sponsored for the re- introducing the Equal Rights Amendment

Works Cited • Images found on the following sites • http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/images/friedan.jpg • http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/images/friedan.jpg • http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/news/bct/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/

2008/08/wk_of_0817/0822AlicePaul.jpg• http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0719/csmimg/p14a.jpg • http://www.vermontbpw.org/images/susan_anthony_large.jpg

• http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Gender/Walsh/EqualRights_amendment.htm

• http://www.topnews.in/usa/files/Hillary_Clinton_Leads.jpg

Works Cited

• “Hillary Clinton on Voting Record." Re-introduce the Equal Rights

Amendment.. 29 Mar. 2007. 27 Mar. 2009 < http://www.ontheissues.org/2008

• Becker, Susan D. The Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment: American Feminism Between the Wars. New York: Greenwood Press, 1981.

• "History." Equal Rights Amendment. 17 Mar. 2009 <http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/era.htm>.