The League of Women Voters makes a compelling case…

It’s 2024. 101 years have passed since the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was proposed, and women’s equal rights are still not enshrined in the US Constitution.

Take a moment to let that sink in.

For more than 100 years, women have been demanding full citizenship in the United States through access to basic, fundamental rights: voting, property ownership, and equal pay, just to name a few. Progress has been slow, even grinding to a halt and sliding backwards at times. And while we have advanced as a society in so many ways, a nationwide guarantee of gender equality remains unfulfilled.

President Biden, with the weeks that remain of your presidency, the mission that began a century ago is now on you. Enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution. The time could not be more urgent. It must be done now.

The ERA was first proposed in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul. It states: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

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