USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Congressman Daniel R. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony’s nephew, proposed the Equal Rights Amendment in Congress for the first time in 1923 and was drafted as a strategy to eradicate discrimination against women by Alice Paul, a leader in the fight for women’s rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Detailed explanation-4: -On December 23, 1981, a federal district court, in the case of Idaho v. Freeman, ruled that the extension of the ERA ratification deadline to June 30, 1982 was not valid, and that ERA had actually expired from state legislative consideration more than two years earlier on the original expiration date of March 22, 1979.