This year marks the 100th
anniversary of the year feminist legend Alice Paul first introduced the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA) in Seneca Falls seeking to codify the prohibition of sex-based
discrimination in the United States Constitution. For a century lawmakers,
activists and grassroots organizers have been fighting to pass the ERA and we
have never been closer. While the ERA has fulfilled all Article Five
requirements, the last hurdle is removing an arbitrary deadline placed upon its
ratification when it successfully passed Congress in 1972. Please join Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Roosevelt House’s Distinguished Leader in
Residence Carolyn Maloney and her Eva
Kastan Grove Fellows as they unveil their critically important petition
drive in support of the ERA. There is no deadline on equality!