All those in favor of the resolution that the resolution passed vote aye.

Virginia took a historic vote this week.

Eyes 59, Nays 41, abstention 0 for the women of Virginia and the women of America.

The resolution has finally.

The excitement in the room was probable because it took a long time to get to this point.

A century after women secured their right to vote in the U.S.

a long legal battle maybe on the way over another constitutional amendment.

Congress now has to decide on what could be the 28th amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

The equal rights amendment is meant to constitutionally prohibit discrimination based on sex,

but it never received the E3-4 to majority needed for ratification until now.

But even if Congress gets on board with the equal rights amendment,

we are not exactly on the cutting edge of equality here.

Most constitutions around the world written in the 20th century have a provision

that explicitly guarantees equality between women and men, but ours does not.

Julie Sook is a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan.

As the country inches closer to a constitutional amendment on sex equality,

she's writing a book about how we got here.

It really starts at the moment of women's suffrage.

Women and men are not left to register in books while energetic suffrage in hearings

realize their long campaign is over.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

It prohibits discrimination on grounds of sex when it comes to the right of citizens to vote.

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