And I would like also to thank my husband Fred for letting me come.

I love to say that because it irritates the women's livers more than anything I say.

You must remember that when the Constitution was written, that women were regarded as property.

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 or any state on account of sex.

So as we want today, remember, forward together, backward, never.

If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be?

I would add an equal rights amendment.

Do you want to be? Yes! ERA said, we want us?

Today, the House of Representatives

cleared a hurdle to make the Equal Rights Amendment

the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

The House voted to remove a deadline for states

to ratify the amendment, which would guarantee women

the same legal rights as men.

Hi, I'm Kate Kelly, human rights attorney, feminist, and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.

And this is ordinary equality.

We left off last week in a pretty good spot.

The ERA had just passed in Congress with 93% of legislators voting for it.

And tonight, after a 49-year struggle, a constitutional amendment appears on the way, proclaiming once and for all that women have all the same rights as that other sex.

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