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Equal Rights Amendment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would have guaranteed equal rights under law for Americans regardless of gender. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. In 1923, Paul drafted the Equal Rights Amendment and presented it as the "Lucretia Mott Amendment" at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment   (2455 words)

Social equality -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Equality is a (A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity) social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect. For example, one may consider equality of the (The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles) sexes in opportunities for (The occupation for which you are paid) employment; the people in question are men and women (contrasted) and the social situation is the search for a job. As another example, (The right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin) equal opportunity refers to the idea that all people should start out in life from the same platform (i.e. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/social_equality.htm   (270 words)

Encyclopedia: Equal Rights Amendment The Equal Rights Party was a Canadian political party that nominated two candidates in the 5 March 1891 federal election. Suffrage is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. Since 1979, a total of 20 states have added equal rights amendments to their state constitutions. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Equal-Rights-Amendment   (7796 words)

THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION Laws giving husbands exclusive rights to control aspects of the marriage still exist in States such as Oklahoma, where a statute provides that the husband is the head of the household, that he may select any reasonable place of residence and the style of living, and that the wife must conform to his wishes. For example, laws that give the husband alone the right to recover damages from a third party who negligently injures his spouse, or for the wrongful death or injury of their child, would be extended under the ERA to give the same right to the wife. Even where the husband is the "sole provider," the court reasoned that the State's equal rights amendment requires recognition of the contribution of the homemaker wife and concluded that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it must be presumed that the property is held jointly. www.gate.net /~liz/suffrage/eracom.htm   (11027 words)

Equal rights quotes & quotations "The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none" is the maxim which should control in all departments of government. en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/equal_rights   (514 words)

Feminism and Women's Studies: Equal Rights Amendment Text and brief background of the Equal Rights Amendment, written in 1921 by suffragist Alice Paul. The Equal Rights Amendment was written in 1921 by suffragist Alice Paul. Supporters contend that the ERA is needed because the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not provide adequate protection against sex discrimination. feminism.eserver.org /history/era.txt   (146 words)

American Rhetoric: Shirley Chisholm - For the Equal Rights Amendment (Aug 10, 1970) It is time we act to assure full equality of opportunity to those citizens who, although in a majority, suffer the restrictions that are commonly imposed on minorities, to women. However, changes are being made so rapidly as a result of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is likely that by the time the equal rights amendment would become effective; no confliction State laws would remain. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1963 Equal Pay Act are not enough; they are limited in their coverage -- for instance, one excludes teachers, and the other leaves out administrative and professional women. www.americanrhetoric.com /speeches/shirleychisholmequalrights.htm   (1731 words)

LII: Law about...Equal Protection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By denying states the ability to discriminate, the equal protection clause of the Constitution is crucial to the protection of civil rights. Generally, the question of whether the equal protection clause has been violated arises when a state grants a particular class of individuals the right to engage in activity yet denies other individuals the same right. www.law.cornell.edu /topics/equal_protection.html   (475 words)

Equal Rights Party The declaration that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is inalienable in the individual was the first expression of the great change in the uses of government, which is but just now beginning to be understood. If the right to life were, by law held to be, as the declaration maintains it to be, inalienable, there could be no law providing for the death penalty. Nobody denies the right of community to erect and maintain a government; but it is demanded that government be restricted to its legitimate uses, the protection of individual rights. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAequalrightsP.htm   (2374 words)

Legislation that Increased Women's Rights: Women's History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Many legislative efforts successfully increased women's rights, but the gains were often hard won, and one major effort to pass a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing equal rights for women failed. The equal rights amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. They also claim the ERA would abolish the right of a wife to be supported by her husband. www2.worldbook.com /features/whm/html/whm018.html   (1102 words)

Ohio Equal Parental Rights Petition Equal rights for both parents to be able to name their child. We, as parents have a right to assume equal periods of placement for our children, unless there is credible evidence that a parent is not fit, that placement would be harmful to the child (children). In light of this presumption, in cases involving two fit parents, the equal fundamental rights of the mother is usually fully supported, while the equal fundamental right of the father is subject to negotiation and compromise. www.petitiononline.com /for911z/petition.html   (1278 words)

Equal Pay Act The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment. For example, two bookkeeping jobs could be considered equal under the EPA even if one of the job holders has a master's degree in physics, since that degree would not be required for the job. For example, if an employer provides extra compensation to employees who are the "head of household," i.e., married with dependents and the primary financial contributor to the household, the practice may have an unlawful disparate impact on women. www.eeoc.gov /types/epa.html   (1036 words)

the Equal Rights Amendment For over one hundred years after its adoption, the Equal Protection Clause was never used by the Supreme Court to invalidate a gender-based classification. Four members of the Frontiero Court applied strict scrutiny, but other justices rejected that approach, arguing that the pendency of the Equal Rights Amendment was a factor in their decision. It being widely assumed that the effect of the ERA would be to compel application of a strict scrutiny test to sex classifications, several Court members suggested the appropriateness of waiting for the constitutional amendment process to work its course. www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/era.htm   (684 words)

Equal Rights Washington: Washington State Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights There are essentially three possibilities: a decision declaring DOMA unconstitutional; a Massachusetts-style decision directing the state to start issuing marriage licenses; or a Vermont-style decision that punts the issue to the state Legislature, which may lead to civil unions, not marriage. It is important to note that marriage provides over 1,000 rights, obligations and protections at the federal level, and more than 300 at the state level. Civil unions guarantee almost none of these rights, and what rights are provided disappear once a same-sex couple crosses state lines. www.equalrightswashington.org   (481 words)

Legacy '98: A Short History of the Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The idea of woman's right to control her own body, and especially to control her own reproduction and sexuality, added a visionary new dimension to the ideas of women's emancipation. Then, in 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, which had languished in Congress for almost fifty years, was finally passed and sent to the states for ratification. The wording of the ERA was simple: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." To many women's rights activists, its ratification by the required thirty-eight states seemed almost a shoo-in. www.legacy98.org /move-hist.html   (4727 words)

St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Equal Rights Amendment The push for equal rights was led by the National Women's Party (NWP) who succeeded in 1925 in convincing Congress to hold the first congressional hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). She introduced the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress, arguing that the purpose of the amendment was to allow women to be all that they could be. Opponents to the Equal Rights Amendment pointed out that the 14th and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution contained guarantees of equality and that existing laws, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act provided practical protections of rights. www.findarticles.com /g1epc/tov/2419100402/p1/article.jhtml   (729 words)

Equal Rights Amendment This website is a project of the Alice Paul Institute in collaboration with the ERA Task Force of the National Council of Women's Organizations. The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, is still not part of the U.S. Constitution. The Alice Paul Institute, a not-for-profit corporation based in Mount Laurel, NJ, was established in 1984. www.equalrightsamendment.org   (324 words)

ERA: Welcome Since 1974, ERA’s mission has been to protect and secure equal rights and economic opportunities for women and girls through litigation and advocacy. Women are denied equal rights when they are: L’Oreal, the issue agued before the California Supreme Court was whether harassing actions taken against a manager who refused to fire an employee for reasons that she perceived to be discrimination on the basis of gender, were sufficient to constitute retaliation under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). www.equalrights.org   (671 words)

Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-1996 Three years after women won the right to vote, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is introduced in Congress by Senator Curtis and Representative Anthony, both Republicans. As activists begin to discuss what they want constitutional equality for women and non-discrimination on the basis of sex to mean, interest grows and at the annual conference in July 1994, an ERA Strategy Summit is called for the purpose of developing recommended language for a new ERA. Under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, using a male rather than human standard, the courts have been able to justify discrimination. www.now.org /issues/economic/cea/history.html   (1812 words)

Browse Topic: Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity The DOJ Civil Rights Division was created for the purpose of enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination, and for coordinating the enforcement efforts of other federal agencies. The FHEO works to create equal housing opportunities by administering laws that prohibit discrimination in housing; by managing assistance programs and grants, and by working with other federal agencies to propose and administer fair housing legislation. The DOE OCR enforces federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department of Education. www.library.okstate.edu /govdocs/browsetopics/civilrts.html   (788 words)

Equal Rights Amendment Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Equal Rights Amendment Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography Looking For equal rights amendment - Find equal rights amendment and more at Lycos Search. Look for equal rights amendment - Find equal rights amendment at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! www.matronofthearts.com /encyclopedia/Equal_Rights_Amendment   (2632 words)

Gifts of Speech - Shirley Chisholm It is true that part of the problem has been that women have not been aggressive in demanding their rights. As in the field of equal rights for fls, Spanish-Americans, the Indians, and other groups, laws will not change such deep-seated problems overnight But they can be used to provide protection for those who are most abused, and to begin the process of evolutionary change by compelling the insensitive majority to reexamine it's unconscious attitudes. A second argument often heard against the equal rights amendment is that is would eliminate legislation that many States and the Federal Government have enacted giving special protection to women and that it would throw the marriage and divorce laws into chaos. gos.sbc.edu /c/chisholm.html   (779 words)

Marriage Rights Los Angeles. Equal marriage rights for same sex couples.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) A.N.S.W.E.R.-LA and the Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights are marching in this year's Christopher Street West LGBT Pride Parade. The event was initiated by the LA Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights and was co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles (MCC) with the endorsement of Don’t Amend.com and Out Against War. Mikaela, a youth activist with the Coalition for Equal Marriage Rights, chaired the event and led militant chants by the protesters. www.marriagerightsla.org   (1047 words)

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Website The President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission John von Doussa QC and staff provided oral evidence before the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee’s Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) in Canberra today. The Human Rights Awards consist of: the Human Rights Medal, awarded to an individual, and the Law Award (sponsored by the Law Council of Australia), Community Award (sponsored by SBS Radio); Print Media Award; Television Award; Radio Award; and the Arts Non-Fiction Award, all for individuals, groups or organisations. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) intervened in the proceedings, making submissions in support of the introduction of award provisions that would assist men and women to balance their paid work and family and caring responsibilities. www.hreoc.gov.au   (3456 words)

ERC Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Equal Rights Colorado is a volunteer based, member-driven political organization whose mission is to promote equal rights for Colorado's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities and their families through non-partisan state legislative advocacy. Alerting and informing our constituents of these and other emerging political issues that could affect their civil rights. Equal rights for Colorado's GLBT communities & their families www.equalrightscolorado.org   (203 words)

New Zealand Equality Education Foundation (2nd Website)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The New Zealand Equality Education Foundation (NZEEF) has been set up to educate people about the concept of Equality, which is central to democracy, but very poorly understood. The New Zealand Equality Education Foundation (NZEEF) believes that all citizens and legal residents have the right to equal enforcement, application, and due process of the law and should enjoy equal access to the law. The New Zealand Equality Education Foundation will campaign to abolish racist and sexist double standards in areas such as the Law, Education, and the Media. www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6708   (244 words)

GSA - Equal Employment Opportunity The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) administers and ensures Agency compliance with the laws, regulations, policies, and guidance that prohibit discrimination in the Federal workplace based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or reprisal. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 USC 2000e (Title VII) which bars employment discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, or retaliation with respect to applicants or employees of the Federal government. Equal Employment Opportunity Management Directive EEO MD-110, effective date November 9, 1999 provides Federal agencies with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission policies, procedures, and guidance relating to the processing of employment discrimination complaints governed by the regulations in 29 CFR Part 1614, above. www.gsa.gov /eeo   (619 words)

Texas Fathers For Equal Rights - Fort Worth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Ten Essential Rights of a Child - At TFER, we believe children subjected to the family courts have Ten Essential Rights. Why Texas Fathers For Equal Rights Exists - We have been around for nearly 20 years. Goals of Texas Fathers For Equal Rights - Our goal is to put ourselves out of business. www.tferfw.org   (111 words)

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