PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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She believed women’s God-given role was in the home, and therefore would be challenged if the Amendment was passed.
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She thought it would be bad if women could possibly be drafted for the military if the Amendment passsed.
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She thought women would lose special privileges in marriage and child custody laws if the Amendment was passed.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phyllis Schlafly was perhaps the most visible opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. Her “Stop ERA” campaign hinged on the belief that the ERA would eliminate laws designed to protect women and led to the eventual defeat of the amendment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Such measures, Schlafly claimed, were hidden underneath the ostensibly straightforward text of the amendment itself, at the core of which was the following: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Three years after the ratification of the 19th amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was initially proposed in Congress in 1923 in an effort to secure full equality for women. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.
Detailed explanation-4: -Phyllis Schlafly led an energetic-and effective-opposition to the ERA. But as the proposed amendment finally broke through, a potent anti-ERA movement was brewing. In the fall of 1972, Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative political activist, began to organize a resistance to the amendment.