"*The ERA, the movement for a national women's musuem, and #RageBaking*"*"-this week at Ms."*

"*Ms.*"* Weekly Digest | February 15, 2020*

*Letter from an Editor*



It's been an exciting week with a few long overdue advancements in the ongoing fight for gender equality.

On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to remove the arbitrary timeline for ratification in the preamble of the Equal Rights Amendment. This victory comes just after the Smithsonian Women's History Museum Act-which would establish a national women's history museum-passed in the House on Tuesday. Now it's on to the Senate.

Settle in with any leftover Galentine's Day chocolate and catch up on the most popular reads from "Ms". this week-we've rounded them up for you below!

For equality,

*Maddy Pontz*
Community Engagement Editor _________________________________________





*This Week's Must-Reads from "Ms".*

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*The House Just Voted to Lift the Arbitrary Timeline for ERA Ratification [ [link removed] ]*

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to remove the arbitrary timeline for ratification in the preamble of the Equal Rights Amendment-marking the latest move in a series of exciting advancements in the fight for constitutional gender equality.

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*Congress is Finally Breaking Ground in the Fight for a National Women's History Museum [ [link removed] ]*

"Women's stories have been largely excluded from history textbooks. Out of 2,500 national historic landmarks across the country-only five percent are dedicated to women's accomplishments... Women and men of all ages deserve to see and be inspired by the remarkable women who helped shape this nation."

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*The Power of Women's Votes, 100 Years Later [ [link removed] ]*

From the page of our new issue: a hundred years after suffragists fought for and won the right to vote, women voters-empowered by the feminist, civil rights and LGBTQ movements-will likely determine the outcome of the high-stakes elections of 2020.

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*A Wonderful and Predictable Part of Life [ [link removed] ]*



"The federal government is our nation's largest employer, and it should be a model employer for the nation." Congress has finally guaranteed paid leave to federal workers when they have a new baby or adopt or foster a child.

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*Good and Mad and Rage Baking: Rebecca Traister's Zucchini Almond Bread Recipe [ [link removed] ]*



"At all the marches, all the rallies, you'll see one sign over and over again. It is a Mexican proverb, apparently taken from the Greek: 'They thought they could bury us; they didn't know we were seeds.'

Women's anger has been buried, over and over again. But it has seeded the ground; we are the green shoots of furies covered up long ago."