The Nation: ERA Now?

Hell hath no fury...

Time is running out for the Equal Rights Amendment, which would guarantee legal equality for both sexes.

Only three more state legislatures must join the 35 that have already approved the measure for the ERA to achieve ratification by three-quarters of the states necessary to make it the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. But after a series of stunning defeats earlier this year, in Florida, Illinois, Nevada and North Carolina, pro-ERA forces have been in a race against the calendar: when Congress originally passed the ERA in 1972, it stipulated that the states must approve it within seven years,...

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