The amendment, first introduced in 1923 by activists Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, was approved by Congress in the 1970s, but needed to be ratified by 38 states in order to fulfill the ...

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was written by suffragists Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman in 1921. Congressman Daniel R. Anthony proposed it in Congress in 1923. Enforcement of the ERA is currently ...

Alice Paul, a New Jersey native, Quaker and women's suffrage and rights activist, drafted the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, three years after women were granted the right to ...

An equal rights amendment didn't pass in the DFL trifecta, but some Republicans say they could support one without abortion rights.

Initially authored in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul, the amendment sought to ensure that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on ...

Congress overwhelmingly passed the Equal Rights Amendment, which would enshrine gender equality into the Constitution, way back in 1972.

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women ...