The new women warriors: Reviving the fight for equal rights - CNN
A few years back, while working for the National Women's Political Caucus, she once deployed a crew of interns to slip copies of Ms. -- an alternative to Cosmopolitan -- into Washington-area nail salons. Today, in her new job, she sits in her small and sparse "cubicle that could," helping to mobilize a crusade that began more than 90 years ago. Her marching orders, as the D. C. director of the ERA Coalition , are to help pass and ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed addition to the U. S. Constitution that would explicitly protect women's rights and prohibit discrimination on the... Though first introduced in 1923, the last time the country really paid attention to the ERA was in the 1970s and early '80s, before Hager was even born. But after failing to secure the required number of state ratifications to pass the ERA by its 1982 deadline, the campaign was reduced to a low simmer. Emma Watson's now-famous September speech to the United Nations about feminism was watched millions of times. " She took to the podium, calling out for equal pay and rights for women in the United States, and inspired a social media frenzy -- not to mention enthusiastic cheers from Meryl Streep. In a backstage interview, Arquette specifically raised the need for the constitutional amendment. Meantime, there's a new book and soon-to-be completed documentary about the ERA, both titled "Equal Means Equal. Source: www.cnn.com
