[m1911]

That is odd. I cut and pasted it, it's a typo on the page I got it from. Or else even the NYT archives are biased :).

Unfortunately my research led me to what Ms. Q was probably thinking about when she wrote that. In 1980 the Republicans dropped support for the ERA, pretty much dooming it. I haven't gotten far enough to clear up just why they did that, although I suspect that the SCOTUS decision that the Civil Rights Act could be twisted to mean quotas had something to do with it.

[hellinahandcart]

Doesn't matter. The fact remains that more Democrats were against extending the franchise to women than were FOR. Republicans? Exactly the opposite.

Same with Civil Rights legislation in the sixties. That's why I found your info so interesting.

As for the ERA, that one got stopped in its tracks because it was such a turkey. Badly written and wide open to creative abuses. I doubt it would pass TODAY even with half the country gone daffy and muddleheaded.

[Auntie Mame]

In 1980 the Republicans dropped support for the ERA, pretty much dooming it. I haven't gotten far enough to clear up just why they did that,

I've been told we have the great Phyllis Schlafly to thank for practically single-handedly seeing to the demise of the ERA.