Equality.
Even before the 13 colonies, women have been discriminated in many ways. We have lived under the United States Constitution for more than 200 years and women still struggle for equal rights. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was introduced in 1923 by Alice Paul, three years after women won the right to vote, but it never passed congress. Today the Constitutional Equality Amendment (CEA) is proposed with hopes of passing congress and settling equal rights for women and gay & lesbian once in for all. Although history has taught us that it will not be an easy task, we just have to prepare ourselves and our people to understand the true meaning of our constitutional equality right.
The ERA has been struggling throughout all this years. Alice Paul, the author of the ERA fought until it was introduced to the Congress in 1923. Then, it was held in Congress from 1923 to 1967. Until NOW (National Organization for Women) once again began the fight for equality. A few years later in 1972, it was passed by the Senate, but the ratification process lasted to 1982 because a series of extensions, where ERA was stopped three states short. That same year ERA was officially reintroduced to Congress. In 1983 the House of Representatives failed to pass it by a vote of 278 against 147. Since then, there has been nothing but delays in passing the amendment completely and ratifying it. The 14th amendment uses a "male" as a human standard and that's not enough to justify discrimination. "Construct an amendment and develop a strategy that would end women's historic subordination to men and guarantee women full constitutional rights" http://now.org/issues/economic/cea/history.html is the purpose of the ERA. This strategy should eliminate discrimination of all kinds, such as sex, race, marital status, ethnicity, homosexuality, origin or color. .
ERA works to ensure that employees are aware of legal protections from discrimination based on pregnancy and .
