- VIDEO FAQs
- What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
- How Does Not Having the Equal Rights Amendment Affect Me?
- Don’t Men and Women Already Have Equal Rights in America?
- Doesn’t the 14th Amendment Already Guarantee Women Equal Rights Under the Law?
- But What About the Other Laws We Have in Place to Protect Women?
- If the ERA is Ratified Will Women be Drafted?
- If the ERA is Ratified Will Women Have to Share Bathrooms with Men?
- Which Political Side is ERA On?
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Don’t Men and Women Already Have Equal Rights in America?
“If the answer is … women are somehow less equal than every other group protected by the US Constitution – let’s just get that out there on the table.” – KAMALA LOPEZ
Women Are the Majority of the Population Yet Our Government
Still Denies Them Full Civil and Human Rights
RESEARCH SHOWS THAT 75% – 90% OF AMERICANS MISTAKENLY BELIEVE THE ERA PASSED
AND THAT MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUAL UNDER THE LAW.
Women won the right to vote in 1920. The next step was supposed to be full equality for women under the Constitution. Almost a century later, that still has not happened. The United States Constitution still does not provide women with the same rights as men. Ratifying the ERA would secure a woman’s rights and provide her with legal equality in the United States of America.
Not only has the United States not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment it is the only developed nation that has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Countries who ratify the CEDAW are required to enshrine gender equality into their domestic legislation, repeal all discriminatory provisions in their laws, and enact new provisions to guard against discrimination against women. The only countries in the United Nations who haven’t ratified CEDAW are: Iran, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tonga, and the United States.
Comprising a majority of the population both in the United States and worldwide, women presently bear the brunt of economic injustice, violence, poverty and hunger. Studies show that improving the condition of women raises the standard of living for the community as a whole.
If the ERA were ratified, there would no longer be a reason for the United States not to ratify CEDAW. The impact on the women worldwide, if the U.S. ratified CEDAW, would be profound and life changing for tens of millions of women and girls. The enforcement of CEDAW worldwide depends on the United States commitment to women – for this commitment to be real, we need full legal equality for women here at home first.