Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), with Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) and Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL), participates in a news conference after US House passage of a bill to remove a decades-old deadline for adopting the Equal Rights Amendment for women’s rights, at the US Capitol in Washington, US March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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US House passes resolution aimed at advancing Equal Rights Amendment

Congress approved the ERA in the early 1970s and set a 1982 deadline for it to be enacted if 38 state legislatures voted to approve