More than 50 years after Congress passed the ERA, its guarantees of gender equality have yet to be enshrined in the Constitution.
its guarantees of gender equality in the Constitution.
The amendment states that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Complicating matters further, five states later voted to rescind their earlier support for the amendment, though such a move has disputed legal value.
"What I think it does is put the ball back in Congress' court, and that's where we've been playing for quite some time," said Zakiya Thomas, president and CEO of the ERA Coalition. "Here we are, a century after its first introduction, 2023," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill. "It's time to get the job done. In fact, it's long overdue."
The compensation gap between men and women is just one of several areas that advocates say the ERA would shore up. In 2022, women earned 82 cents on average for every dollar earned by men -- a disparity almost unchanged over two decades.
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