I would hesitate to make any pronouncements that the ERA is cold and dead.
The Left has been cooking this resurrection attempt for 35 years. They are going to lay awake in bed all night, every night, thinking up new clever schemes to make an end-run and have the thing “deemed” to be passed.
Remain on guard.
Kim Forde-Mazrui column: A liberal case against the Equal Rights Amendment
https://www.richmond.com/opinion/columnists/kim-forde-mazrui-column-a-liberal-case-against-the-equal/article_a6356b64-5862-528e-a73f-e900cccf4b8e.html
They’re arguing that the original amendment on congress-critter pay lets them resurrect it, despite the deadline in the original. And the states that have rescinded as well as passed it let them argue it is still “in work”.