Did you know discrimination based on sex is not explicitly prohibited in the U.S. Constitution? michelebgoodwin is joined by JCarrollFoy, elliesmeal, LtGovStratton & JulieCSuk on a new episode of OnTheIssuesPod to talk about why we need the ERAnow!
, and she chairs the Illinois Council on Women and Girls, the Governor’s Rural Affairs Council, the Military Economic Development Council, and the Illinois River Coordinating Council.. She is the Florence Rogatz visiting professor of law at Yale Law School and a professor of sociology, political Science and liberal studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, CUNY.
She said, remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember that all men would be tyrants if they could, and remember, this is not a modern-day feminist talking, ladies and gentleman. This dear old Abigail in the 18th century.
And I did speak very candidly about sort of the discrimination that I’ve faced as a black woman, but that this was a way that we could continue to put a light on discrimination for women all across the board, and that what I urged everyone, all of my colleagues to do on the House floor, was to make sure that Black women and Latinas and Indigenous women and Asian women and all women will continue to be at the forefront of those conversations.
And so, over a series of years, hopefully not many, people will come to understand that it’s all women, and I believe, for once, for once, women who have suffered domestic violence, women who have suffered mental and physical abuse, women who have suffered, I believe that this, once and for all, will allow that woman to say it’s my Constitutional right for you to protect me. We’re still…we’re still fighting for pay equity. If we had pay equity, we wouldn’t need this.
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