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We the Women - The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (Paperback)
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We the Women - The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (Paperback)
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women
belonged in the Constitution. She stood on the shoulders of
brilliant women who persisted across generations to change the
Constitution. We the Women tells their stories, showing what's at
stake in the current battle for the Equal Rights Amendment. A
century after the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women the
constitutional right to vote, the quest for women's full inclusion
in the US Constitution continues. After passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment, revolutionary women demanded full equality beyond
suffrage by proposing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Congress
took almost fifty years to adopt it in 1972, and the states took
almost as long to ratify it. In January 2020, Virginia became the
final state needed to ratify the amendment. Why did the ERA take so
long? Is it too late to add it to the Constitution? And what could
it do for women? Distinguished legal scholar Julie C. Suk tells the
story of the ERA through the voices of the bold women lawmakers who
created it. They faced opposition and subterfuge at every turn, but
they kept the ERA alive. And, despite significant gains, the
achievements of gender equality have fallen short, especially for
working mothers and women of color. Suk excavates the ERA's past to
guide its future, explaining how the ERA can address hot-button
issues such as pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, and
unequal pay. The rise of movements like the Women's March and
#MeToo have ignited women across the country. Unstoppable women are
winning elections, challenging male abuses of power, and changing
the law to support working families. Can they add the ERA to the
Constitution and improve American democracy? We the Women shows how
the founding mothers of the ERA and the for-gotten mothers of all
our children have transformed our living Constitution for the
better.
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