[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
March 23, 2022
Right now, we face critical challenges to women's equality, both in the U.S. and around the world—but it can be hard to keep up. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
Fifty Years Later, the Equal Rights Amendment Is Ratified. Now What? [[link removed]]
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ERA supporters rally outside the Supreme Court in August. (Allison Bailey / NurPhoto via AP)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Tuesday marked 50 years since the Equal Rights Amendment was first approved by the U.S. Congress and sent to the states for ratification. To commemorate the past half-century of striving for women’s equality, Congress members and women’s rights advocates spoke out in support of the amendment.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a letter to U.S. archivist David Ferriero, urging him to fulfill his statutory duty and publish the ERA. The letter included opinions from respected law scholars—including Laurence Tribe of Harvard and former Senator Russ Feingold, now president of American Constitution Society—all of whom concluded that the ERA has met all requirements to be officially included in the Constitution as the 28th Amendment, and that the archivist should publish it as such.
“Women and people of all marginalized genders across the United States continue to experience discrimination on the basis of sex,” wrote Maloney. “The only way to ensure true and equal protection under the law is to cement the ERA into the U.S. Constitution. As Chairwoman of the Committee with jurisdiction over the National Archives, and as a woman whose rights under the law are still not fully reflected in our nation’s founding document, I urge you to carry out your ministerial duty under the law without delay.”
Feminist Majority Foundation president Eleanor Smeal, who was in the Gallery of the Senate when it approved the Equal Rights Amendment on March 22, 1972 and has worked for its passage ever since, said on this 50th Anniversary: “Take it from me who has worked on ratification of the ERA for over 50 years, this is really difficult. Don’t make it impossible.”
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Millions of Women Would Benefit From a Minimum Wage Hike—Far More than Men [[link removed]] Ending the Public Health Emergency Could Prove Disastrous for New Moms on Medicaid [[link removed]]
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Congress Finally Reauthorizes VAWA After Years of Republican Stalling [[link removed]] Women Are Still Disproportionately Suffering from Pandemic Unemployment [[link removed]]
What we're reading:
We know it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. That's why going forward, we'll provide a weekly roundup of the stories we think are important that Ms. may not have covered. Here's what we're reading this week:
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"Women
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President Biden has announced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the nominee to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court. Who is she? What’s her background? And why is she one of the most qualified and prepared nominees that this process has seen in nearly a century? New from our "Road to Confirmation" series: We unpack Judge Jackson’s qualifications and examine what’s next in the process.
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