The amendment has been in the works since 1920 and passed a milestone in 2020. A century-long battle to amend the Constitution to cement equal rights for Americans regardless of sex is coming to a ...

That high percentage has Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley, D-Tucson, hopeful that this Legislature might pass a bill to approve the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that ...

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office certified petition titles and summaries for two proposed constitutional amendments that were once part of a singular effort to enshrine equal rights in ...

Ten years ago Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had seemed unimaginable. We won equal rights to civil marriage in every state in the ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the ...

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

The transgender rights movement has been on the wrong track for several years now, and the wake of physical, emotional and cultural harm it’s leaving behind is difficult to quantify. Many are now ...

Whenever an equal rights movement enjoys some success, it’s a reason for everyone to celebrate. Some folks, however, mistakenly see rights as a zero-sum game in society. If there’s progress towards ...

Anti-trans laws aren’t just about bathrooms or sports, they’re about systematically pushing trans individuals out of public life. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that excluding same-sex ...