Readers share opinions on Steinem and Smeal's ERA reality check, Kurt Andersen's review of Mary Trump's book, Emmy nominations and more.
To realize that the ERA was not passed due to corporate America’s need for profits at the expense of women workers makes me sick.In the first episode of the series “Mrs. America” Phyllis Schlafly says that “women are already protected from discrimination in the Constitution by the equal protection clause under the 14th Amendment.” The nine-part series never corrects that.
I believe what “Mrs. America’s” creators had in mind was to reach back into their mothers’ generation to show current women’s activists, especially those in the #MeToo movement, that they weren’t the first to protest the inequity of women. “Mrs. America” is a wonderfully rich dramatization. It is a TV show, not a textbook, and may necessarily have left out some aspects of that struggle. Still, it is a fascinating show to watch and an engaging education for a new generation of women.Thank you for including the timely article by two tireless activist icons of the women’s movement — really a movement for all.
,” July 30]: Certainly a lynching tree seems an inappropriate way to celebrate a town’s “Wild West” past.
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