Equal Rights Amendment Addresses Constitutional Amendment: Women as Equals to Men

February 19, 2020Joy Burkhard, MBA

This past week, history was made in the U.S. House of Representatives with a bipartisan vote to pass a resolution (H.J. Res. 79) to remove the deadline from the preamble of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) because women are not recognized in our country's founding document, the Constitution, as fully equal to men under the law.

It was a vote for the American dream – for women to be on the same footing as everyone else in order to pursue our greatest potential.