On August 13, Roberta Madden addressed the Swannanoa Vally Friends Meeting at their monthly Women’s Dinner about the importance of ratifiying the Equal Rights Amendment. She described North Carolina’s historic opportunity to become the 38th — and final — state necessary to ratify the ERA to guarantee equal rights for women and men under the U.S. Constitution.
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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