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Equal Rights Amendment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2455 words) |
 | The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would have guaranteed equal rights under law for Americans regardless of gender. |
| Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. |
| In 1923, Paul drafted the Equal Rights Amendment and presented it as the "Lucretia Mott Amendment" at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. |
| Equal rights - definition of Equal rights in Encyclopedia (217 words) |
| Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect. |
| For example, one may consider equality of the sexes in opportunities for employment; the people in question are men and women (contrasted) and the social situation is the search for a job. |
| The fight for social and legal equality was seen during the sixties in the United States in the Civil Rights movement. |
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