The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first ...
Charles Curtis, a Kansas Republican. Paul's original amendment text stated: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
Reid, Martha W. Griffiths and Margaret M. Heckler celebrating the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the House in 1971.Credit...Charles P. Gorry/Associated Press The amendment was introduced ...