Pictured here are many of the supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment at the NC General Assembly on March 5, when the bills were introduced. H271 by Rep. Carla Cunningham et al. and S184 by Sen. Floyd McKissick et al. would ratify the ERA. That’s Sen. McKissick at the microphone; Rep. Cunningham, also at podium; Roberta Madden in green with RATIFY ERA-NC sash; and numerous other supporters. More than 200 women attended the day-long event at the General Assembly.
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“Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t. Nobody ever thought that that’s what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that.” ~ Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Wage Gap in NC