Update: The ERA Today
Ordinary Equality
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
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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:
- 3 State Attorneys General Gue To Recognize ERA as 28th Amendment (Ryan Miller * USA Today * 2020)
- “House Votes to Revive Equal Rights Amendment” (Danielle Kurtzleben * NPR * 2020)
- “Virginia Approves the ERA., Becoming the 38th State to Back It” (Timothy Williams * NYTimes * 2020)
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| 0:00.0 | You must remember that when the Constitution was written, that women were regarded as property. |
| 0:11.3 | The struggle for an equal rights amendment traces back to 1923 when feminist Alice Paul wrote the words that became ERA. |
| 0:19.4 | Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. |
| 0:27.8 | So as we warned today, remember, forward together, backward, never. |
| 0:33.5 | If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be? |
| 0:37.4 | I would add an equal rights amendment to you're saying. If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be? |
| 0:40.8 | I would add an equal rights amendment. |
| 0:52.9 | Today, the House of Representatives cleared a hurdle to make the Equal Rights Amendment the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. |
| 0:54.5 | The House voted to remove a deadline for states to ratify the amendment, which would guarantee women the same legal rights as men. |
| 1:05.2 | Hi, I'm Kate Kelly, human rights attorney, feminist, and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment. |
| 1:11.5 | Today we're going to do something a little bit different because we want to get you caught up with all of the current news about the Equal Rights Amendment. |
| 1:18.9 | And there is a lot. So I'm going to talk to a very special guest. |
| 1:23.9 | Hi, I'm Jenny Kaplan. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Wonder Media Network. And ERA fan |
| 1:31.2 | extraordinary. I mean, recently, yes, as of the past eight months. So, Kate, what's the deal? |
| 1:38.8 | What's happened? A lot has happened with the Equal Rights Amendment. The first most exciting piece of news that we've talked about a little bit on the podcast so far is that Virginia became the 38th and final needed state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. |
| 1:54.6 | Yay! |
| 1:56.8 | That means many things, but one of them is it's sort of the capstone of 100 years of work of women in this country to meet the requirements of Article 5 of the Constitution, which governs the amendment process. |
| 2:11.2 | It's pretty simple. |
| 2:13.1 | It has to pass in both houses of Congress by twothirds, and then it has to go to the states for |
| 2:18.2 | ratification, and that has to be three-fourths or 38. So all this time, through the 1970s, we got |
| 2:25.3 | to 35. In 2017, we got Nevada, which was huge and brought back this really robust movement. |
| 2:32.2 | Then in 2018, we got Illinois. It was like, you know, |
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