Equal Rights Amendment
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
Alice Paul, 1885-1977
Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party she founded pushed
President Woodrow Wilson to support women's right to vote. In its
campaign for a suffrage amendment, the NWP stationed pickets in
front of the White House - the first group ever to do so. After
the 19th Amendment secured women's voting rights 1920, Paul
turned her attention to writing an Equal Rights Amendment. "We
shall not be safe until the principle of equal rights is written
into the framework of our government," she said. The ERA - first
introduced in Congress in 1923 and finally passed by both houses
in 1972 - failed to win ratification by the states by a 1982
deadline.
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