The Failure of the Equal Rights Amendment
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Yixi Zhang
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Proposed in the Congress in 1923, The Equal Rights Amendment seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. Until 1982, it was still 3 states short of the vote, signaling the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment. So why the Equal rights Amendment (ERA) failed to pass? By examining the existing laws protecting women's rights in the 20th century, speeches and activities of anti-feminists, this paper concludes that ERA failed to pass because many existing legislation already guaranteed women’s right, so many women believed that the ERA was unnecessary and because many conservative women protest against the ERA, changing the political climate in enough states.
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