...the Equal Rights Amendment guaranteeing equal rights based on sex is not actually part of the constitution. It was passed by Congress in 1972 but only got 35 of the 38 states needed to ratify it. Arizona, Nevada, and Utah didn't ratify it, neither did most of the South. It has been reintroduced to Congress every year since then. I always thought that all my rights were secured, but nope, just the right to vote. Which I do appreciate.
~Gettin' my feminist grove on.
Woah! I didn't know that.
ReplyDeleteyea, crazy huh?! i'm telling everyone i meet.
ReplyDeletewtf! so wait...if it's been reintroduced to congress every year since then, what's happened in congress? i don't really understand how these things work. :) weird weird weird.
ReplyDeletehow i understand it is that an amendment to the constitution has to pass through congress then be ratified by 38 states. so it passed congress in 1972 but there was an eight year time limit for the states to ratify. we only got 35. so now the bill is reintroduced, but it hasn't passed congress to even go to the states since back in the day.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.equalrightsamendment.org
i'm glad this is as shocking to you as it is to me!