Just one state needed to ratify the ERA as of 2019. Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA on January 27, 2020!
94% of Americans support the ERA. 90% men 96% women. 97% Democrats 90% Republicans 92% Independents. Click to see our Polling.
Latinas face the largest wage gap at $0.53. Women on average earn $0.79 to a white man’s dollar.
Every 92 seconds an American is sexually assaulted. The ERA would give them rights.
The House voted to remove the time limit on February 13, 2020…The Senate is next.
Welcome to an Equal Future.
Our goal is to amend the Constitution to ensure that one cannot be discriminated against because of one’s sex. The ERA Coalition is comprised of some 100 national and local organizations across the country working for the equality of girls and women, boys and men. We strategize with states seeking ratification. We work with legislators on the amendment and other ERA bills. We’ve provided groundbreaking research. Our team of legal scholars has examined the next steps to a fully realized Equal Rights Amendment.
There has been extraordinary progress in the movement toward full equality. While Alice Paul began it all in 1923, and Congress passed the ERA in 1972, by 1982 only 35 states had ratified, three shy of the necessary 38. But in 2017 Nevada ratified the ERA; the first state in 40 years to do so; Illinois ratified in 2018. And Virginia ratified it on January 27th, 2020, and on February 13th the House of Representatives dissolved the time limit written in the amendment’s introduction. It’s now on to the Senate!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the May 28th, 2020 town hall on Violence against Women and the Equal Rights Amendment. Here are some resources from Legal Momentum’s SYMS Foundation Helpline, as well as from the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence.
Breaking News: Launch of the ERA Business Council
Together, the ERA Coalition and Johnnie Walker are calling on America’s leaders to stand with Corporate America for the ERA – a new coalition of business leaders dedicated to working with the ERA Coalition to ensure the Equal Rights Amendment is recognized as the 28th amendment to the US Constitution. Based on your existing support of women and women’s rights, we hope you join this critically meaningful effort. Take the pledge here.
ERA Coalition Press Release
The ERA Coalition Launches Corporate America for the ERA with First Corporate Partner Johnnie Walker
Wednesday March 11, 2020
Today, the ERA Coalition launched its Corporate America for the ERA, a new coalition of corporations and business leaders dedicated to passing the Equal Rights Amendment with the ERA Coalition.
At an event in NYC last night, the Coalition announced its first official brand partner, Johnnie Walker as part of its Jane Walker by Johnnie Walker platform. Read the full press release HERE.
Press Contact:
- Marianne Stack
- mstack@eracoalition.org
- 804-405-1678
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View the replay of the virtual event which was held via Zoom on 4/27/2020
