From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

An old controversy gets a new name.

Hello again, I'm Roman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look of the issues Americans care about most.

Fifty years after the civil rights movement began, many people think equal rights for women

are part of the Constitution. They are not. Congress gave the Equal Rights Amendment the required

two-thirds vote in 1972, but by a deadline of 1982, it was three short of the 38 states

it needed to pass. With Nancy Pelosi, now the first

female House Speaker in history, the ERA is back under a new name, the Women's Equality

Amendment. On to the point, does an idea as old as women's suffrage finally have a chance? Would

women lose as much as they might gain?

I'm a reporter's notebook later on presidential politics and big money. First, here's the news.

Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio

International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine

T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again. Mormon-Aulney back with To the Point. The Equal Rights Amendment

for Women is back under a new name, the Women's Equality Amendment, but some natural supporters

are more fatigued than excited. On To the Point, would changing the Constitution have unintended

consequences?

We'll hear about better salaries, benefits, and workplace environments, along with the right

to same-sex marriage and the possible loss of existing protections. On reporter's notebook,

presidential candidates from both parties set records for raising money. First, this news update,

the U.S. Supreme Court decided one case and

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