Why is the Equal Rights Amendment still not ratified?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The United States is one of only 28 countries in the world that doesn’t have equal protection for women under the law enshrined in its constitution. There was a moment in the 70s where it came very close, but then the conservative movement was born.

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0:31.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and Jerry's over there.
0:47.8	The three Amigos equal in every single way, shape and form.
0:53.0	And that makes this of course stuff you should know, which is basically its own sovereign
0:57.4	nation of equality.
0:59.2	Though.
1:00.2	Mm-hmm.
1:01.2	Yeah?
1:02.2	Oh yeah man, come on.
1:03.2	Give me a minute.
1:04.2	I always thought Jerry had more power than we did.
1:06.6	Nope, not a drop more.
1:08.9	Nor a drop less.
1:10.4	Nari a drop less, Charles.
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