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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongress is Convening the First Official Hearing on the ERA in Three Decades
Congress is Convening the First Official Hearing on the ERA in Three Decades
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The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) next weekthe first in over three decades.
Activists at the Los Angeles Womens March called for the ratification of the ERA.
With issues of equality at the forefront of todays conversationswith the #MeToo and Times Up movements, with the Womens Marches and more women than ever before running for and being elected to office, Rep. Carolyn Maloney said in a statement, we have an extraordinary responsibility and opportunity to seize this moment and make lasting change by finally ratifying the ERA.
Maloney is the sponsor of H.J. Res. 35, which would re-start the ratification process for the ERA; she has reintroduced the ERA one dozen times since she won her first Congressional election in 1992. Maloney has also emerged a leader in the modern fight to ratify the ERAand shes one of many advocates who have been demanding an official Congressional hearing on the matter since 1982.
As Ms. reported in its Fall 2018 issue, Maloney convened her own shadow hearing on the ERA last Junemaking time for feminist activists, celebrities and experts to testify on the urgency of womens constitutional equality in defiance of then-House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlattes refusal to convene a Congressional hearing on the matter. That afternoon marked the first time the measure was publicly discussed by Congress in 33 years.
In a recent Ms. op-ed, Maloney outlined numerous ways in which womens lack of constitutional equality can be devastatingranging from dismissals of lawsuits based on discrimination to an inability for government officials to create legislation outlawing female genital mutilation.
The ERA, which was first introduced in 1923, has been ratified by two states in the last two years. Now, its one state away from reaching the majority approval it needs to become lawand on April 30, women will finally be able to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill about why it matters. Perhaps, at long last, Maloneys colleagues are finally ready to listen.
https://msmagazine.com/2019/04/24/congress-is-convening-the-first-official-hearing-on-the-era-in-36-years/
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Congress is Convening the First Official Hearing on the ERA in Three Decades (Original Post)
niyad
Apr 2019
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. 2019. And equality for women is still an issue for some.
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niyad
(113,598 posts)2. isuch a simple concept--and such hatred and ignorance opposing it.