Monthly Archives: March 2011

ERA Sisters, The Time is Now
Don’t Hit the Reset Button on ERA – Let’s Finish What We Started!

When five valiant efforts to re-introduce ERA in 2009 led by Shirley Breeze (MO), Emily Batten (IL), Camille Moran (LA), Sandy Oestreich (FL), Berta Seitz (AR) were defeated by a handful of Neanderthals, Carolyn Cook (DC), considered ways to bolster their efforts for the 3-state strategy, on Capitol Hill. After much research and pondering, she concluded there had to be an end to this stalemate and it was not to give up now when we have come so far. She drafted an official proposal urging Congress to remove ERA’s ratification time limit on the basis that a human being’s path to equality does not expire in a democracy and must exist in perpetuity. Cook believes women fought too hard for suffrage to have it taken away again on such a critical measure as ERA. Furthermore, is it justice to erase ERA’s history and 35 states support when our sisters in the un-ratified states continue to fight for it? Continue reading →

Women’s History in the Making: New Bill to Speed Equal Rights Amendment’s Ratification (High Country Press)

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) chose today, International Women’s Day, to introduce legislation to speed ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution. “The ERA is intended to ensure equality for women and men in all areas of society,” … Continue reading →