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When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and All in the Family's Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight states needed by the 1982 deadline. Many of the arguments against the ERA that historically stood in the way of ratification have gone the way of bouffant hairdos and Bobby Riggs, and a new Coalition for the ERA was recently set up to bring the experience and wisdom of old-guard activists together with the energy and social media skills of a new-guard generation of women.
In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognized by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA. Covering topics ranging from pay equity and pregnancy discrimination to violence against women, Equal Means Equal makes abundantly clear that an ERA will improve the lives of real women living in America.
In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognized by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA. Covering topics ranging from pay equity and pregnancy discrimination to violence against women, Equal Means Equal makes abundantly clear that an ERA will improve the lives of real women living in America.
Price: $16.95
Pages: 160
Publisher: The New Press
Imprint: The New Press
Publication Date:
06 January 2015
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781620970393
Format: Paperback
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Praise for Equal Means Equal:
“Neuwirth makes a good case that ratification is the right thing to do.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A vital primer . . . Neuwirth’s easy-to-digest chapters lay out the reasons the amendment is needed and the current state of gender equality rulings in the courts.”
—The Kansas City Star
“Equal Means Equal clearly articulates why we still need the ERA. It’s high time we put women into the Constitution once and for all, and I support the efforts of the ERA Coalition to make that happen.”
—Meryl Streep
“I would really like to see the women’s movement and the Carter Center and others reinitiate the effort to pass the Equal Right’s Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
—Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
“Women have recently begun to reenergize the Equal Rights Amendment. Who in the world would be against the ERA?”
—Dr. E. Faye Williams, president of the National Congress of Black Women
“This book makes an eloquent and compelling case for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Most countries in the world already have constitutional sex equality provisions. This is a fundamental human rights issue, and the American women and men working for the ERA have my wholehearted support.”
—Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“The time is right for the ERA and a new movement of women and men, Democrats and Republicans alike, to put this fundamental right into our Constitution. Equal Means Equal clearly and eloquently lays out the issues at stake and will be an essential tool for the movement.”
—Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
“Neuwirth makes a good case that ratification is the right thing to do.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A vital primer . . . Neuwirth’s easy-to-digest chapters lay out the reasons the amendment is needed and the current state of gender equality rulings in the courts.”
—The Kansas City Star
“Equal Means Equal clearly articulates why we still need the ERA. It’s high time we put women into the Constitution once and for all, and I support the efforts of the ERA Coalition to make that happen.”
—Meryl Streep
“I would really like to see the women’s movement and the Carter Center and others reinitiate the effort to pass the Equal Right’s Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
—Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
“Women have recently begun to reenergize the Equal Rights Amendment. Who in the world would be against the ERA?”
—Dr. E. Faye Williams, president of the National Congress of Black Women
“This book makes an eloquent and compelling case for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Most countries in the world already have constitutional sex equality provisions. This is a fundamental human rights issue, and the American women and men working for the ERA have my wholehearted support.”
—Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“The time is right for the ERA and a new movement of women and men, Democrats and Republicans alike, to put this fundamental right into our Constitution. Equal Means Equal clearly and eloquently lays out the issues at stake and will be an essential tool for the movement.”
—Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
The founder of the international women's rights organization Equality Now, Jessica Neuwirth is the former director of the New York branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She lives in New York City. Gloria Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s. She lives in New York City.