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Equal Rights Amendments: State Provisions (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Aug. 23, 2004
Report Number RS20217
Report Type Report
Authors Leslie W. Gladstone, Domestic Social Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Twenty states adopted state equal rights amendments between 1879 and 1998. The texts of most of these amendments either are similar to the proposed federal amendment or restate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The timing of the enactment of these state amendments and the choice of wording reflect both the ebb and flow of the women's movement in the United States and the political culture of the particular states at the time of passage. A brief history of the women's rights movement as it relates to the passage of state equal rights amendments is included. The report ends with the text and the date of enactment of each amendment.