Women's History Month: Equal Rights Amendment
When the Equal Rights Amendment fell three states shy of ratification in 1982, sex discrimination remained hard to challenge, legally and culturally.
Although three more states recently ratified the amendment, the U.S. Archivist has resisted calls to publish the ERA as the 28th Amendment.
Half the states have "mini-ERAs," however, leading to greater equity in their own state's policies regarding divorce, child custody, school athletics, inheritance, pay, and more.
Learn more about Virginia's recent ratification in The New York Times. (Campus members can subscribe to The New York Times for free.)
— Sponsored by the Chancellor's Commission on Women
Contacts
Charlie Alison, executive editor
Office of University Relations
479-575-6731,
calison@uark.edu
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