Posted on 08/17/2020 6:43:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
It was a huge step forward for American women when, exactly 100 years ago, they finally gained the guaranteed right to vote with ratification of the 19th Amendment. But to Alice Paul, the step wasn’t nearly large enough.
Paul, a suffragist who’d waged hunger strikes and endured forced feedings in jail so women could get the vote, equipped herself with a law degree and got to work writing another constitutional amendment — one that would guarantee women equal rights under the law. She introduced that amendment — now known as the Equal Rights Amendment — in Congress in 1923.
Of course, the ERA, finally passed by Congress in 1972 only to stumble during a circuitous ratification effort, still isn’t law. But feminist leaders are determined to change that now. And they feel cultural momentum is on their side for another victory nearly a century in the making. […]
“To call them suffragists, it sounds like they only wanted one thing,” says Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, of Paul and her colleagues. “The vote was an important step, but they didn’t believe the vote alone would give women full equality.”
“Basically, we want to finish this,” she says. “The women’s movement is not giving up until this thing is in the Constitution, period.” …
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Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, pre-maternity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.The ERA turns the US Constitution into those constitutions. And it’s the left making the association between the 19th Amendment and this amendment, in the context of stating their goals.
— 1936 USSR constitution, Article 122
Women and men have equal rights in the USSR.
Exercise of these rights is ensured by according women equal access with men to education and vocational and professional training, equal opportunities in employment, remuneration, and promotion, and in social and political, and cultural activity, and by special labour and health protection measures for women; by providing conditions enabling mothers to work; by legal protection, and material and moral support for mothers and children, including paid leaves and other benefits for expectant mothers and mothers, and gradual reduction of working time for mothers with small children.
— 1977 USSR constitution, Article 35
Women in the People’s Republic of China enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life, political, economic, cultural, social, and family life.
The state protects the rights and interests of women, applies the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women alike and trains and selects cadres from among women.
— Red China constitution, Article 48
“It was a huge step forward for American women when, exactly 100 years ago, they finally gained the guaranteed right to vote with ratification of the 19th Amendment.”
Big, big mistake. Huge.
The shift leftward would have happened without it. Who are the biggest promoters of leftism? Very white males.
No comment.
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A BIG step in the destruction of the United States Constitutional Republic.
They don’t understand they just Feel.
I’m not sure it would have happened. Of course, you could be right.
A big, foreseeable problem with the ERA is this imo. Until patriots clean up the judiciary swamp, desperate, career Democratic and RINO lawmakers are simply going to let activist judges get away with legislating equal rights laws from the bench.
Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a “third term” in office imo.
Pray for the victory of God’s people and the defeat of every single one of Satan’s.
Which is to say, the women have none. But neither do the men, so it all works out. I guess.
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