Equality Is Not a Feeling
Ordinary Equality
Acast Creative Studios
4.0 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.
Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.
To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:
- Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Carolyn Maloney * Rodale Books * 2008)
- “I’m a Survivor of Female Genital Cutting and I’m Speaking Out—As Others Must Too” (Maryum Saifee * The Guardian * 2016)
- Butterfly Politics (Catherine MacKinnon * Belknap Press * 2017)
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start today's episode, I wanted to let you know that we'll be talking about mature themes and assault. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, my name is Ruby, and I am seven years old. |
| 0:19.8 | Do you think girls should be in the Constitution? |
| 0:22.0 | I think that girls should be in the Constitution. |
| 0:28.8 | What is the Constitution? Do you know? |
| 0:31.5 | It's like a document that tells all the laws of our country. |
| 0:38.3 | Do you think it should protect girls and boys? |
| 0:40.6 | Yes. |
| 0:41.7 | Do you think boys and girls should be equal? |
| 0:44.8 | Why do you think that? |
| 0:46.3 | Because you've got to be nice to each other. |
| 1:03.1 | You must remember that when the Constitution was written, that women were regarded as property. |
| 1:12.2 | The struggle for an equal rights amendment traces back to 1923 when feminist Alice Paul wrote the words that became ERA. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or bridged by the United States |
| 1:19.2 | or any state on account of sex. So as we warns today, remember, forward together, backward, |
| 1:27.1 | never. If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be? |
| 1:31.3 | I would add an equal rights amendment. |
| 1:35.3 | Can you guys like to be? |
| 1:37.3 | Yes, EAA! |
| 1:39.3 | When do we want us? |
| 1:40.3 | No! |
| 1:41.3 | Yesterday, all these years later, Virginia's legislature voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, |
| 1:48.0 | making it the 38th state to do so. That means three-quarters of all states have ratified, |
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