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Now we continue our series, 100 years of 100 Things, our WNYC Centennial Series.

Today is thing number 74, 100 years of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Broadly speaking, as many of you know, the goal of the ERA is to enshrine equality for women in the Constitution.

According to the National Archives,

quote, it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce,

property, employment, and other matters. Now, the Equal Rights Amendment has not yet been

adopted into the Constitution, although some would argue that it has met

the requirements to actually become the 28th Amendment. Joining me now to track the journey of the

ERA over the last 100 years, including why some actually consider it ratified, is Julie Suk,

law professor at Fordham University, an author of We the Women,

the Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment. Julie, Professor Suck, thanks so much

for joining us. Welcome to WN.N.Y.C. Thanks so much for having me. It's a pleasure.

So I gave a brief definition of the ERA, but is there more that you'd like to add?

Absolutely.

Well, as you mentioned, it's been a hundred years since it was first introduced on the heels of the

suffrage amendment, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which focused on not abridging

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