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Today at Ms. | September 5, 2025
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Why Big Business Is Trying to Defeat the ERA: The Economic Implications of Equality (May 1976) [[link removed]]
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By Elinor Langer | On Nov. 7, 1975—more than half a year ago as you read this—the voters of New York and New Jersey defeated amendments to their state constitutions which said that men and women should be treated equally before the law. It was one of those old-fashioned political events that the rise of the pollster is supposed to have leeched from our body politic—namely, a surprise. It set off a period both of private introspection on the part of individual women who had previously taken ratification of the federal Equal Rights Amendment for granted, and public reconsideration on the part of the organizations and politicians to whom stewardship of the ratification movement had fallen.
Listen to the latest episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward , “The Feminist Fight For The Equal Rights Amendment Is Far From Over—and More Urgent Than Ever (with Pat Spearman, Ellie Smeal, Carol Moseley Braun, Kathy Spillar, and Ting Ting Cheng)” on Spotify [[link removed]] , Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Women as Teachers, Governors and Civil Service: The Fight for Women’s Leadership Everywhere [[link removed]]
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